buttress

• This buttress is less than halfway up the tree. —  Richard Preston on the giant trees
• I availed myself of a sort of comb of the mountain, which stood against the wall like a buttress, and which the wind and solar radiation, joined to the steepness of the smooth rock, had kept almost entirely free from snow. —  The Life of Kit Carson
• In a few minutes we reached a point where the buttress was overhanging, and there was no other way of surmounting the difficulty than by passing around one side of it, which was the face of a vertical precipice of several hundred feet Parfleche is the name given to buffalo hide. —  The Life of Kit Carson
• Hiding themselves behind a buttress, they awaited his coming in breathless silence. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• On the greater north buttress is the figure of St. Mary the Virgin, to whom the church is dedicated. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum

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