A construction of sheet piling or sometimes of horizontal planking spiked to guide piles, employed to enclose and confine the compressible soil under and adjoining a heavy structure. The term is also (in England) incorrectly applied to the stringpiece or cap sill of a wharf, properly called a camp shot. (Sturgis, 1900)
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