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Caisson
Caisson meaning
An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc. | The gate across the entrance to a dry dock. | A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
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And in ceremonies for Army and Marine Corps officers who were colonels or above, there is a riderless horse that walks behind the caisson.
Following a short ceremony outside of Brown Chapel AME Church on Sunday, Lewis' body traveled on a horse-drawn caisson through several blocks of downtown Selma to the Pettus Bridge, where Lewis' flag-draped casket crossed.
Currently being manufactured in La Coruna in north-west Spain by Dragados Offshore, the huge caisson unit is due to be transferred to Aberdeen in the next few months to be installed during the summer.
That could mean 3,000 guests, most of them police and prison officers, and an honor guard, bagpipe band, firing line, bugler, flag folding and a horse-drawn caisson.
As screw piles can be disrupted by ice, steel caisson lighthouses such as Orient Point Light are used in cold climates.
He fell convert and likely died of head injuries caused by impact with the criss-crossing steel beams inside the caisson.
Orient Long Beach Bar Light (Bug Light) is a blend of a screw pile light that was converted to a caisson light because of the threat of ice damage.
The project chief engineer Washington Roebling suffered from caisson disease.
When iron probes underneath the caisson for the Manhattan tower found the bedrock to be even deeper than expected, Roebling halted construction due to the increased risk of decompression sickness.