soil nail
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of a number of rods or bars inserted into pre-drilled holes in a steep slope in order to stabilise it.
Example Sentences
- "More than 900 eight-to-ten-metre soil nails are set into the walls adjacent to the north end of the dive-under, to secure its steep concrete-sprayed side."