Counterfort

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  • n. A buttress built against a wall.
  • n. A spur or projection of a mountain.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
  • n. A spur or projection of a mountain.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In architecture: A portion projecting from the face; of a wall; a buttress.
  • n. In medieval milit. arch., a redoubt or an intrenchment thrown up by the besiegers of a place as a defense against sorties or attempts to relieve the place from without.
  • n. A spur or projecting part of a mountain.
    • Word Usage
    "The term "counterfort" is used when the projection is on the inside."
     
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