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Bank :: Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine..

Brae :: Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.

Aslope :: Aslope (adv. & a.) Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

Crest :: Crest (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.

Esplanade :: Esplanade (n.) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country..

Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction..

Slopewise :: Slopewise (adv.) Obliquely.

Catchwork :: Catchwork (n.) A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..

Declivity :: Declivity (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity..

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.

Slope :: Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.

Counterscarf :: Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction..

Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

Bankside :: Bankside (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam..

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

Herringbone :: Herringbone (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions..

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