BUTTRESS
Buttress
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 forces arising out of the roof structures that lack adequate bracing.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Buttress
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buttress
Noun
- A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- A buttress-root.
- A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
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- Anything that supports or strengthens.
Verb
- 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.
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