training wall

noun

training wall

noun
1

A wall, bank or jetty built to confine and direct the flow of a river, watercourse or tide.

  • A training wall of steel-sheet piling driven down 25 ft. now forms the other side of the mill lade.1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:

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