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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