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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..

Pendence :: Pendence (n.) Slope; inclination.

Hang :: Hang (n.) A sharp or steep declivity or slope.

Berme :: Berme (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank..

Subaltern :: Subalpine (a.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line..

Mansard Roof :: Mansard roof () A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one..

Talus :: Talus (n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.

Bent :: Bent (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill..

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..

Slant :: Slant (v. i.) To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

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

Corbiestep :: Corbiestep (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

Lean-to :: Lean-to (a.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof.

Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault..

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..

Slant :: Slant (n.) A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant..

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

Verge :: Verge (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north..

Glacier :: Glacier (n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland..

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