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The barrage will be made from a series of huge caissons (concrete blocks that are common in underwater construction ).

He could also, by the gleam of bayonets visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow lines of artillery with green caissons.

caissons sunk as break waters and prefabricated metal piers and roadways.

It sits on location at the end of an unfinished line of precast concrete caissons, 500 m out into the English Channel.

At Chepstow the piers were large cast iron cylinders which themselves formed the caissons, the air locks being fitted on top of them.

At the Forth bridge iron caissons 70 ft.

The boat then glides effortlessly into one of the water filled caissons where the doors close to form a watertight seal.

These are called suction caissons and have been used for a number of projects in the oil and gas industry.

Cossacks, foot and horse soldiers, wagons, caissons, and cannon were everywhere.

These uprights are supported on huge piers of masonry and concrete, the foundations for which were carried down, by the aid of iron caissons and compressed air, to a depth of about 15 metres on the side next the Seine, and about 9 metres on the other side.

The piers of the Benares bridge were single iron caissons, 65 ft.

This was effected by caissons with air.