a bundle of brushwood bound tightly into a six-foot diameter roll

Bundled willow cuttings used to stabilize stream banks. Bundling allows otherwise weak green twigs to reinforce each other and resist the forces of stream currents.

bundles of brushwood or branches; used to retain the earthen walls of trenches or in batteries.

A bundle of sticks or twigs used to reinforce earthworks, trench walls, or lunettes, as fascine was a field substitute for a sandbag or cotton bale, the most preferred reinforcing materials. Usually buried in the earth interior of a wall, a fascine had a bristling top that would often protrude above hastily built field fortifications and the impression of being a defensive feature like an abatis.

A long bundle of brushwood or similar material, firmly bound together, used in filling up trenches and ditches, constructing batteries, or reinforcing a defensive line.

A bundle of sticks used in building fortifications such as lining or filling a trench, filling material to bridge ditches and many other uses. Each fascine measured about 20" in diameter and between 5 to 6 feet in length.

tightly bound bundle of saplings used to reinforce a parapet or in revetment.  Evidence of the use of fascines might appear as a darker stratum of soil in an excavated cross-section.  See Revetment.

A fascine (pronounced , "fa-SEEN") is a rough bundle of brushwood used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across uneven or wet terrain. Such bundles were used in military defences for revetting (shoring up) trenches or ramparts, especially around artillery batteries, or filling in ditches. Military fascine bridges were used as early as Roman times.