buttress

Meanings

Noun

  • A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  • Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
  • A buttress-root.
  • A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
  • Anything that supports or strengthens.

Verb

  • To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
  • To support something or someone by supplying evidence.

Origin

  • From Old French ars bouterez, from bouterez, oblique plural of bouteret (rare in the singular), from Frankish *botan, from Proto-Germanic *bautanÄ… ("to push"). Ultimately cognate with beat.

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