Meaning of Buttress | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
2. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
   broadly
3. A buttress root.
4. A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
5. Anything that supports or strengthens.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“It was decided, therefore, to build eight concrete buttresses from the new strengthening work to safeguard the general stability of the wall along the length where the greatest movement had taken place.”

“Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress”

“All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.”

“Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress.”

“the grand pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity”

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