buttress
nounEtymology
From Old French ars bouterez (noun, literally “supporting arcs”), from bouterez (adjective), oblique plural of bouteret (rare in the singular), from Frankish *bôtan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push”). Ultimately cognate with beat.
- derived from *bautaną✻
- derived from *bôtan✻
- derived from ars bouterez
Definitions
A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- 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.
Anything that serves to support something
Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
A buttress root.
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A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- 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.
Anything that supports or strengthens.
- the grand pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity
To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for buttress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA