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Webster 1913 Edition
Buttress
But′tress
,Noun.
1.
(Arch.)
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
☞ When an external projection is used merely to stiffen a wall, it is a pier.
2.
Anything which supports or strengthens.
“The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity.” South.
Flying buttress
. See
Flying buttress
.But′tress
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Buttressed
([GREEK]); p. pr. & vb. n.
Buttressing
.] To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
To set it upright again, and to prop and
buttress
it up for duration. Burke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Buttress
BUT'TRESS
,Noun.
1.
A prop; a wall or abutment built archwise, serving to support another wall on the outside, when very high or loaded with a heavy superstructure.2.
Any prop or support.BUT'TRESS
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2025
buttress
buttress
English
Buttress tree roots (Kapok tree)
Noun
buttress (plural buttresses)
- (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (botany) A buttress-root.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
- Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress, Hourglass Buttress, Kardam Buttress, Seven Buttresses
Milestone Buttress on Tryfan. The direct route is highlighted.
- 2005, Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears, page 54:
- All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.
- 2010, Tony Howard, Treks and Climbs in Wadi Rum, Jordan, ISBN 9781852842543, page 84:
- Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress.
- Crowell Buttresses, Dismal Buttress, Hourglass Buttress, Kardam Buttress, Seven Buttresses
- (figuratively) Anything that supports or strengthens.
- South
- the ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity
- South
Derived terms
Synonyms
Translations
brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it
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anything that serves to support something
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feature jutting out from mountain; crag, bluff
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See also
Verb
buttress (third-person singular simple present buttresses, present participle buttressing, simple past and past participle buttressed)
- To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
Translations
support something physically with, or as if with, a buttress
support something or someone by supplying evidence
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