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skewback

noun

Etymology

From skew + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as skewback — “skew + back”

Definitions

  1. The side of an arch

    The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.

    • The avalanche shelter itself consists of a series of heavily reinforced arches, supported by substantial piers on the cliff-side, and on skewbacks cut deep into the rock on the other.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA