Buttress

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”

CEFR level