noun. A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement.

noun. Something resembling a buttress, as.

noun. The flared base of certain tree trunks.

noun. A horny growth on the heel of a horse's hoof.

noun. Something that serves to support, prop, or reinforce.

transitive verb. To support or reinforce with a buttress.

transitive verb. To sustain, prop, or bolster.

To support by a buttress; hence, to prop or prop up, literally or figuratively.

noun. A wall or abutment built along a stream to prevent the logs in a drive from cutting the bank or jamming.

noun. The angle formed on the plantar surface of the hoof by the junction of the wall with the bar.

noun. A structure built against a wall, for the purpose of giving it stability.

noun. Figuratively, any prop or support.

noun. In farriery, an instrument of steel set in wood, for paring the hoof of a horse.

transitive verb. To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

noun. A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

noun. Anything which supports or strengthens.

noun. See Flying buttress.

noun. A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

noun. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.

noun. A buttress-root.

noun. A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.

verb. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

verb. To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

verb. make stronger or defensible

noun. a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building

verb. reinforce with a buttress

"Salvini, a noted Italian democrat, was right on the mark when he observed: "The widespread ignorance of events is the main buttress of injustice"."

flying buttress  hanging buttress  nunatak  

buttressed  buttressing  flying buttress  

beef up  fortify  reinforce  reënforce  strengthen  

arcade  balcony  balustrade  bastion  battlements  

abutment  advocate  affirm  afford support  alpenstock  

buttressed  buttresses  buttressing