gabionage (gabionaj)

[ gabioned (ga'bi-ond), a. [ The fourth day were planted vnder the gard of the cloister two demy-canons and two coluerings against the towne, defended or gabbioned with a cro e wall, thorow the which our battery lay. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. ii. 140. He told me he had a plan of attacking Cherbourg by floating batteries, strongly para petted and gabioned , which he was sure would succeed. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, I. 378.