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Buttress :: Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry..

Counterfort :: Counterfort (n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

Buttressing :: Buttressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buttres.

Butment :: Butment (n.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier..

Bay :: Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers..

Buttress :: Buttress (v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

Arcboutant :: Arcboutant (n.) A flying buttress.

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..

Buttressed :: Buttressed (imp. & p. p.) of Buttres.

Spur :: Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.

Pier :: Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.

Buttress :: Buttress (n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.

Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc..

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