Buttress

A buttress is a mass of masonry or brickwork serving to support the side of a wall that is of great height, or to assist it in sustaining any great strain or pressure upon it from the opposite side.

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A Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture and Building (New York: Industrial Book Company, 1913) 30

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