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Webster dictionary was developed by Noah Webster in the beginning of 19th century. On this website, you can find definition for buttress from the 1913 edition of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Define buttress using one of the most comprehensive free online dictionaries on the web.
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buttress
Part of Speech: noun
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- So she did, crouching on the earth by the wall, sheltered against the wind or the wet by either side of a buttress, getting her food sparingly from the booths at the gate, or of charity. - "The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay", Maurice Hewlett.
- It was on the eastern side next the buttress of the land that the deformation was the greatest, and the folds most steep and close. - "The Elements of Geology", William Harmon Norton.
- Numerous portals of the Norman era appear constructed within a shallow projecting mass of masonry, similar in appearance to the broad projecting buttress, and, like that, finished on the upper edge with a plain slope. - "The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.", Matthew Holbeche Bloxam.