fascine
To use fascines to build or reinforce, or to fill inTo use fascines to build or reinforce (something), or to fill in (a trench, etc.).
Meaning
1 senses(New Zealand)To use fascines to build or reinforce (something), or to fill in (a trench, etc.).
Origin
The noun is borrowed from French fascine (“bundle of kindling; bundle of branches used toThe noun is borrowed from French fascine (“bundle of kindling; bundle of branches used to build defences, fill in ditches, etc.; logs arranged horizontally between piles on the banks of a watercourse as an erosion barrier”), from Old French faissine, from Latin fascīna (“bundle of sticks”), from fascis (“bundle of sticks, faggot, fascine; bundle, package; burden, load”) (ultimately from a late or pseudo-Proto-Indo-European root noun *bʰask- (“band; bundle”), actually originating from a substrate language or as an eastern Mediterranean Wanderwort) + -īna (the nominative, vocative, or ablative feminine singular of -īnus (suffix forming nouns)).
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Forms
fascines, fascining, fascined, fascinedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
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