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buttress
[ buh-tris ]
noun
- any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
- any prop or support.
- a thing shaped like a buttress, as a tree trunk with a widening base.
- a bony or horny protuberance, especially on a horse's hoof.
buttress
/ ˈbʌtrɪs /
noun
- Also calledpier a construction, usually of brick or stone, built to support a wall See also flying buttress
- any support or prop
- something shaped like a buttress, such as a projection from a mountainside
- either of the two pointed rear parts of a horse's hoof
verb
- to support (a wall) with a buttress
- to support or sustain
Other Words From
- buttress·less adjective
- buttress·like adjective
- non·buttressed adjective
- un·buttressed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of buttress1
Example Sentences
At low tide, the looping roots act like stilts and buttresses, keeping trunks and branches above the waterline and dry.
Definitions are, most often, ornaments of the understanding rather than its buttresses.
Both buttress national identity, and both are concerned with equality.
Nor is it certain that exports by energy companies would buttress U.S. diplomacy.
We should buttress cooperative tribes again, with names like Dulaim, Isawi, Al bu Issa, among others.
They build on their distinctive strengths, buttress and leverage their specific assets, attributes, and advantages.
“McConnell is doing everything he can to buttress his support,” Mann said.
Profiting by this, Benjy quietly moved away round a colossal buttress of the berg, and took refuge in an ice-cave.
It was an outside one, massive as a buttress, and Harry was building it well and truly, for it was the essential of the house.
From the buttress foot a sheep-walk goes along the scarp—see, you can follow it from here in the dry grass.
And drawing his cutlass from his belt, Michael bounded round the buttress behind which the young girl had promised to wait.
Perhaps we shall be able to walk round into another cwm on the far side of North-west buttress.
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