Plural of buttress

Forms of buttress

Buttresses in a sentence

• It was decided, therefore, to build eight concrete buttresses from the new strengthening work to safeguard the general stability of the wall along the length where the greatest movement had taken place.1954 June, “Strengthening of River Calder Retaining Wall, N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 429
• The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.2005, Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears, page 54
• In the crevices of the rock wall that buttresses the pool, a cast of crabs go about their crab business.2023, Nadine J. Cohen, Everyone and Everything, Pantera Press. From the entry cast
• They were dug down one metre and backfilled with gravel or rubble stone to provide internal buttresses and deep drains.2021 April 7, “Network News: A long-standing problem: Victorian efforts to secure unstable slopes”, in RAIL, number 928, page 11. From the entry counterfort
• The military post and gas depot where Qu stopped to refuel had been shored up by heavy concrete buttresses.1991, Jeremy Schmidt, Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan, Seattle: The…. From the entry refuel

Meaning of buttress

1. noun A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
2. noun Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
3. noun A buttress root.

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Questions about the plural of buttress

What is the plural of buttress?

The plural of buttress is buttresses.

Is buttress countable?

Buttress is a countable noun.