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counterforts

counterforts is the plural of counterfort.

Meaning of counterfort

Noun

counterfort (plural counterforts)

  1. A buttress built against a wall.
    • This involved new track drainage, strengthening of embankments and cuttings and the provision of counterforts.1957 March, “The Shenfield-Southend Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, pages 157-158
  2. A spur of a mountain range.
    • With its counterforts projecting some 300 miles, [the Pamir] forms the western headland of all the plateaux and mountain systems skirting the Chinese Empire; it completely separates the two halves of Asia, and forms an almost impassable barrier to migration and warlike incursions.1884, Ernest George Ravenstein & al. trans. Élisée Reclus, The Earth and Its Inhabitants, Vol. VI: Asia, Vol. I, p. 165

Questions about counterforts

What is counterforts the plural of?
Counterforts is the plural of counterfort.

Words near counterforts in the dictionary

  1. counterforces
  2. counterformula
  3. counterformulae
  4. counterformulas
  5. counterfort
  6. counterforts
  7. counterfraud
  8. counterfugue
  9. counterfugues
  10. counterful
  11. counterfuls

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