Plural of fascine; multiple bundles of sticks or branches bound together for military or engineering use.
From fascine (singular), following English plural formation. The term remains in military engineering and historical texts.
If you've ever seen footage of soldiers laying fascines across a muddy trench in WWI or WWII, you're watching a tactic that's thousands of years old—the Romans used fascines, and it worked so well that militaries never stopped.
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