Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An overhanging slope: as, a wall with a counter-slope. Mahan.
- noun In fortification, the inclination of the sole of an embrasure upward and outward from the sill: used in contradistinction to the downward slope toward the front usually given to the soles in embrasure batteries.
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Examples
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The music of the surf now sounded like the song of the sea-shell as we crossed another rough prism of stone and bush, whose counter-slope fell gently into a sand-flat overgrown with Ipomaa and other bright flowering plants.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Looking eastward the land smoothens, the dorsa fall more gently towards the counter-slope, and there are none of the “Morros” which we have traversed.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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A short and easy ascent led to a little counter-slope, the Majrá
The Land of Midian 2003
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Terraces have a base with a slight counter-slope, part of which has been cut uphill and part in-fill forming a hump downhill (see fig.B. 8).
1.1. Forests 1982
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A short and easy ascent led to a little counter-slope, the Majrá
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The music of the surf now sounded like the song of the sea-shell as we crossed another rough prism of stone and bush, whose counter-slope fell gently into a sand-flat overgrown with Ipomaa and other bright flowering plants.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Looking eastward the land smoothens, the dorsa fall more gently towards the counter-slope, and there are none of the "Morros" which we have traversed.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The rising of a counter-slope almost imperceptible to the eye, forms a ridge that seems to join the eastern
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When the river has reached the mouth of the Apure in that very low ground where the slope towards the north is met by the counter-slope towards the south-east, that is to say, by the inclination of the plains which rise imperceptibly towards the mountains of Caracas, the river turns anew and flows eastward.
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When the river has reached the mouth of the Apure in that very low ground where the slope towards the north is met by the counter-slope towards the south-east, that is to say, by the inclination of the plains which rise imperceptibly towards the mountains of Caracas, the river turns anew and flows eastward.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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