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- noun Plural form of
buttress . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
buttress .
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Examples
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Basically you cut away low branches and remove the buttresses from the bottom of the trunk.
A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones Tobias Jones 2010
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Halperin buttresses his defense with a call for historians to engage in a valiant struggle: "to work against his or her intuitions, to counter them with hard-won apprehension of irreducible historical difference" (15).
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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The weathered and channelled backs of five of the buttresses are the same date as those south of the nave; but the easternmost one has a flat raking back like those to the north and south of the choir and presbytery.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette
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For our bones within us are but inside walls and buttresses, that is to say, houses constructed of lime and stone, as it were, by coral insects; and our houses without us are but outside bones, a kind of exterior skeleton or shell, so that we perish of cold if permanently and suddenly deprived of the coverings which warm us and cherish us, as the wing of a hen cherishes her chickens.
Life and Habit Samuel Butler 1868
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Close to one third of my project was retaining walls, buttresses and voids.
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Close to one third of my project was retaining walls, buttresses and voids.
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I continued to write successful books, and in sociological controversy I saw my opponents confuted with the facts of the times that daily reared new buttresses to my intellectual position.
Chapter 31 2010
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Close to one third of my project was retaining walls, buttresses and voids.
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Daylight knew also his history, the prime old American stock from which he had descended, his own war record, the John Dowsett before him who had been one of the banking buttresses of the Cause of the Union, the Commodore Dowsett of the War of 1812 the General Dowsett of
Chapter I 2010
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Close to one third of my project was retaining walls, buttresses and voids.
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