1) Any prop or support 2) Architectural element 3) Architecture term 4) Architectural term 5) Architectural word 6) Architecture word 7) Brace 8) Buttressing 9) Castle architecture 10) French word used in English 11) Strengthen 12) Strengthening structure 13) Support 14) Supporting structure 15) Supporting wall structure
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1) Buttressing 2) Pier 3) Prop 4) Reinforce 5) Shore up 6) Strengthen 7) Support
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A vertical stone reinforcing strip for a wall.
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• (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. • (n.) Anything which supports or strengthens. • (v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
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an arch shaped support, used by builders of bridges and churches in the days before steel.
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a stone, brick or wood structure projecting from a wall, designed to support it by counteracting lateral thrust
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An additional bracing wall, often set at right angles to the main wall. It is usually constructed from brick or stone, and tapers towards its summit..
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A rib of masonry projecting from the face of a wall. Its primary purpose is to strengthen the wall, and to resist the outward thrust of roof trusses or masonry vaulting, but it also has a decorative purpose.
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A flange of tissue protruding from the main outline of the base of a tree. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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A support, usually exterior, for a wall, arch, or vault, that opposes the lateral forces of these structures. A flying buttress consists of a strut or segment of an arch carrying the thrust of a vault to a vertical pier positioned away from the main portion of the building. An important element in Gothic cathedrals.
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A wall support usually of stone or brick placed at the sides of a building, commonly seen on some Gothic Revival style churches.
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A stone or brick structure to support or brace a heavy wall. A series of tall narrow buttresses ending in decorative finials not only support San Gabriel's church wall, but give it a distinctive appearance.
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a special threaded connection
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But'tress noun [ Middle English
butrasse ,
boterace , from French
bouter to push; confer Old French
bouteret (nom. sing. and acc. plural
bouterez ) buttress. See
Butt an end, and confer
Butteris .]
1. (Architecture) A projecting mass of...
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But'tress transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Buttressed ;
present participle & verbal noun Buttressing .] To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly. « To set it upright again, and to prop and
buttress it...
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A projecting mass of masonry set at an angle to or bonded into a wall that it strengthens or supports. A buttress decreases in its cross-sectional area form top to base.
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a structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it
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A mass of masonry or brickwork that projects from, or is built against, a wall in order to give it additional strength. A pier buttress is an exterior pier that counteracts the thrust of an arch or vault. A flying buttress has an arch or half arch that transmits the thrust of a vault or roof from the upper part of a wall onto a buttress. C
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A mass of brickwork built against a wall to carry the thrust and provide strength.
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A projection from a wall to help support particular loads especially side thrusts from roofs.
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An exterior masonry structure that opposes the lateral thrust of an arch or a vault and adds extra support.
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Also known as Pier.
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Additional bracing wall or projecting support. It is often set at right angles to the main wall and usually tapers towards the top.
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buttressing noun a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
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a support usually of stone or brick
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