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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..

Escarp :: Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap..

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

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

Glissade :: Glissade (n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps..

Slopewise :: Slopewise (adv.) Obliquely.

Dip :: Dip (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

Facing :: Facing (n.) A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface..

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

Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..

Bevel :: Bevel (v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds..

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