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1551. Sausages : One form of stone mesh consisting of tubes of wire mesh, usually circular or elliptical in section, filled with stone and closed at the ends. In one form, somewhat similar to bolsters (See 1549) used for protection of river banks, when the sausages are laid parallel touching down the sloped bank and out into the bed, or horizontally as a mattress filter. It forms a flexible and rapidly constructed protection. Trees or shrubs may be planted among the sausages to bind the stone with their roots.
SEE: Gabion groyne,

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