173, edition of 1844. There be, says he, in divers parts of France, and specially at Nantes, wooden bridges, where, to break the force of the waters and of the floating ice, which might Endamage the piers of the said bridges, they have driven upright timbers into the bed of the rivers above the said piers, without the which they should abide but little.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh
And now there rests no other shift but this; To gather our soldiers, scatter'd and dispersed, And lay new platforms to Endamage them.
"King-Henry-VI-Part-1"
Shakespeare, William