buttress
A projecting support built against a wall to strengthen it and resist sideways forces.
All languages
- English
- buttress
- Norwegian
- støttepilar
- Japanese
- 控え壁 — ひかえかべ — hikaekabe
- Korean
- 부벽 — bubyeok
- Spanish
- contrafuerte
- French
- contrefort
- German
- Strebepfeiler
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