cross-lot bracing

[ kraws-lot, kros- ]

/ ˈkrɔsˌlɒt, ˈkrɒs- /

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noun Engineering, Building Trades.

bracing extending from one side of an excavation to the opposite to retain the earth on both sides.

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Words nearby cross-lot bracing

crosslet, crosslight, crossline, cross-link, cross-linker, cross-lot bracing, crossly, Crossman, cross-match, cross matching, cross-mate

How to use cross-lot bracing in a sentence

I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
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There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.
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If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
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A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
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And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
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If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
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In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
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In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
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Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.
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Then the enemy's howitzers and field guns had it all their own way, forcing attack to yield a lot of ground.
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