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Retaining wall

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  1. 1
    Any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth.

    "Masonry flying arches strutting the retaining walls in Chorley cutting, Manchester-Blackpool line, L.M.S.R."

  2. 2
    a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) wordnet

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