GAZONS

, in Fortification, turfs, or pieces of fresh earth covered with grass, cut in form of a wedge, about a foot long, and half a foot thick, to line or face the outside of works made of earth, to keep them up, and prevent their mouldering.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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GARRISON Guns
GASSENDI (Peter)
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* GAZONS
GELLIBRAND (Henry)
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