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Meanings of rammed earth in English
Technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls by compacting a damp mixture of sub soil.
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Examples for "taipa"
Examples for "taipa"
1
Soon after Taipa had finished this address to the assembly, Feenou left us.
2
Touboulangee and Taipa kept their promise, and brought off to me some hogs.
3
Police expect to recover the bones from the Taipa site tomorrow for a post-mortem.
4
Northland police are investigating after possible human remains were found in scrub near Taipa in the Far North.
5
At a meeting in Taipa today, the school's community was told it would be permanently shut from Friday.
1
To Miss Hannah More, Jan. 1.-With a present of "Christine de Pise."
2
And one thing besides will be manifest, viz., that Rusticien de Pise was no Frenchman!
3
The words of Charles C. Pise and his example had produced an impression greater than was apparent.
4
But I wish thar was some, and I could pisen it for him.
5
I 'pose dis gemman can told what you 'tole, replied the policeman, turning to Peverell.
Usage of rammed earth in English
1
The fortifications looked to Temper like nothing more solid than simple rammed earth.
2
Probably got rammed earth behind those walls, but they're not really expecting direct artillery fire.
3
Some of New Zealand's rammed earth house houses date back to the 1800s and are still going strong.
4
The rammed earth is stunning.
5
Most houses were low one-story affairs that were made of rammed earth and could withstand even the worst storms.
6
Last year a rammed earth house in a small Chinese village won the award for World Building of the Year.
7
But wine casks full of rammed earth had been hurriedly piled there in case the mad English should make the attempt.
8
They lived in thatched houses constructed of rammed earth and plaster, with beaten floors on which dry grass was strewn as carpet.
9
Our final stop-off was at Port Phillip Estate, impressive for its rammed earth architecture and calming country views as well as its wine.
10
The purpose is not to make rammed earth or cement, but only to reestablish capillarity by having firm soil under a shallow, fist-sized depression.
11
A cemetery dating from French times had been destroyed to make way for it, and the whitewashed walls were all of rammed earth and bones.
12
Rammed earth walls here and there, pottery shards, flint, bronze and iron artifacts and that's it.
13
I edge through the tunnel under the walls-rammedearth overhead, frozen like cement-andpeer round the corner at the blockhouse.
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