training wall
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]training wall (plural training walls)
- A wall, bank or jetty built to confine and direct the flow of a river, watercourse or tide.
- 1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
- A training wall of steel-sheet piling driven down 25 ft. now forms the other side of the mill lade.
References
[edit]- “training wall”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.