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/
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dewatering chamber
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6 entriescofferdam constructionconcrete cofferdamdewatering cofferdaminflatable cofferdamsheet pile cofferdamtemporary cofferdam
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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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