BUTTRESS
\bˈʌtɹəs], \bˈʌtɹəs], \b_ˈʌ_t_ɹ_ə_s]\
Definitions of BUTTRESS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
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Anything which supports or strengthens.
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To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
By Oddity Software
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A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
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Anything which supports or strengthens.
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To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
By Noah Webster.
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Masonry or brickwork built on to an outside wall to afford support; a support.
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To support by a buttress; to prop.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A projecting support built on to the outside of a wall: any support or prop.
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To prop or support, as by a buttress.
By Daniel Lyons
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A projection of masonry to strengthen a wall.
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To strengthen with a buttress.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To support with a buttress; sustain; uphold.
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A structure built against a wall to strengthen it; a support. See illus, in preceding column.
By James Champlin Fernald
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