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The answer BUTTRESS has 67 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of buttress in various dictionaries:
noun - a support usually of stone or brick
verb - reinforce with a buttress
verb - make stronger or defensible
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| A projecting support, whether or not it's "flying" |
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| to build buttresses to support a building or structure: |
| to make support for an idea or argument stronger by providing a good reason for it: |
| to give support to or strengthen something: |
| To sustain, prop, or bolster: "The author buttresses her analysis with lengthy dissections of several of Moore's poems ( Warren Woessner). |
| Something resembling a buttress, as: |
| To support or reinforce with a buttress. |
| Something that serves to support, prop, or reinforce: "The law is by its very nature a buttress of the status quo ( J. William Fulbright). |
| A horny growth on the heel of a horse's hoof. |
| The flared base of certain tree trunks. |
| A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement. |
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A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral (sideways) forces arising out of the roof structures that lack adequate bracing. * The term counterfort can be synonymous with buttress, and is often used when referring to dams, retaining walls and other structures holding back earth. * Early examples of buttresses are found on the Eanna Temple (ancient Uruk), dating to as early as the 4th millennium BCE.* |