Seawall: massive structure built along the shore to prevent erosion and damage by wave action.
Weep hole: hole through a solid revetment, bulkhead or seawall for relieving water pressure.
Backfill: material used to build up and consolidate the land behind a seawall or similar structure.
The problem: The city insisted that the buyers first build a hugely expensive underground parking garage and seawall.
Raw sewage has been allowed into water at Hope's Nose in Torbay after a seawall breach at Livermead in Torquay.
BBC: Torbay sewage pumping 'not affecting beach water quality'
Flank protection: angled section of wall at the end of a shore protection structure, for example a seawall or revetment.
Torbay Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders has written to Torbay Council asking why repairs to the seawall planned for February were delayed.
BBC: Torbay sewage pumping 'not affecting beach water quality'
Or Galveston, Texas, which maintains a huge seawall to avoid the kind of hurricane damage that killed 6, 000 people back in 1900.
Toe protection: material, usually large boulders, placed at the base of a sea defence structure like a seawall to prevent wave scour.
But for now they are about as useful in limiting damage from the current financial tsunami as Galveston's seawall was in protecting the city from Hurricane Ike.
Emergency generators at the plant became inoperable after a tsunami topped a seawall at the coastal facility and flooded the emergency equipment that was located in a low-lying area.
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Diners sit at tables lining the open windows, listening to the waves crash against the seawall, as they tuck into such dishes as grilled Cape crayfish, impeccably tender and lemony.
The seawall, along Torbay Road, was breached on Monday.
BBC: Torbay sewage pumping 'not affecting beach water quality'
The stone seawall, with its little red lighthouse at the end, is a popular place for a stroll, and Dubliners from all walks of life can be seen watching the sunset or fishing off the edge.
Back in 1998, my parents had been anchored off that very seawall before heading south for Norfolk and the start of the Caribbean 1500, a rather laid back ocean race from the Chesapeake Bay to the Virgin Islands.
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Hurricanes became media stars when Dan Rather, a cub reporter from Houston, convinced CBS headquarters in 1961 to add 15 minutes to the (then) 15 minutes of network news featuring surprise him, braving the Galveston Seawall while big, bad Hurricane Carla languorously eyed the Texas Coast.
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