Buttress
['bʌtrɪs] or ['bʌtrəs]
Definition
(noun.) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.
(verb.) make stronger or defensible; 'buttress your thesis'.
(verb.) reinforce with a buttress; 'Buttress the church'.
Inputed by Carter--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
(n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.
(v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
Typist: Nigel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Shore, prop, support, stay, brace.
Inputed by Dan
Definition
n. a projecting support built on to the outside of a wall: any support or prop.—v.t. to prop or support as by a buttress.
Typed by Elroy
Examples
- She glanced behind, and with a wild cry of laughter and challenge, veered, poised, and was gone beyond the grey stone buttress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On the highest point stood the church--an ancient, weather-beaten building, with heavy buttresses at its sides, and a clumsy square tower in front. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow of one of the stone buttresses ahead of us and we passed them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Checked by Annabelle