He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam.
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Cofferdam
//ˈkɑ.fɚ.dæm//
Synonyms for "cofferdam" (40 found)
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11 translations across 9 languages.
Danish
1 entries- cellefangedæmning noun (temporary watertight structure)
Dutch
1 entries- kistdam noun (temporary watertight structure)
Finnish
1 entries- arkkupato noun (temporary watertight structure)
French
1 entries- batardeau noun (temporary watertight structure)
German
1 entries- Kofferdamm noun (temporary watertight structure)
Italian
2 entries- cassone noun (temporary watertight structure)
- tura noun (temporary watertight structure)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صندوق noun (temporary watertight structure)
Polish
2 entries- grobla noun (temporary watertight structure)
- koferdam noun (temporary watertight structure)
Spanish
1 entries- ataguía noun (temporary watertight structure)
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6 total sentences available.
Downstream there was a small wooden cofferdam and when he woke there were naked children splashing in the pool there and he rose and wrapped his jacket about his waist and walked out along the bank where he could sit and watch them.
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At fixed injection volume of PVC gels solution, the curvature of MLAs [(microlens arrays)] obtained with patterned electrode substrates at fixed sizes of cofferdam can be tuned by changing the preparation voltage.
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Where the viaduct crosses the lake, the piles will be bored directly into the lakebed, using a cofferdam to hold back the water while the pier is built.
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