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deadman [′ded‚man]
(civil engineering)
A buried plate, wall, or block attached at some distance from and forming an anchorage for a retaining wall. Also known as anchorage; anchor block; anchor wall.


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This was previously reported for the study subjects included between 1980 and 1993 (Infante-Rivard and Deadman 2003).
We are as fearful as Carver must have been witnessing a lynching when we encounter the lines "Smoke from a torched deadman, barking laughter / from the cottonwoods at the creek.
Hood DW, Deadman ME, Jennings MP, Bisercic M, Fleischmann RD, Venter JC, et al.
 
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