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The spaces between the posts or verticals were then filled by sheet-piling and the frame was bolted to the curbing piles.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

In this frame the vertical members were Wakefield sheet-piling plank, spaced 6 to 10 ft. apart, and connected by three lines of double waling bolted to the verticals at three different heights.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

Rough 6 by 12-in. sheet-piling, forming a rectangle, 127 by 34 ft., braced across by heavy timbering, was driven about 28 ft. to rock as the excavation progressed.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 by Brace, James H.