Crossword-Solution: COUNTERFORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Counterfort | n. | A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall. |
| Counterfort | n. | A spur or projection of a mountain. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “COUNTERFORT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BUTTRESS built against wall to strengthen it (archit.) | 1 answer |
| BUTTRESS supporting terrace | 1 answer |
| BUTTRESS supporting wall | 1 answer |
| buttress | 66 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with COUNTERFORT (5)
These rods are the vertical and horizontal rods in the counterfort of the retaining wall shown at _a_, in Fig.
The manifest and only function of the rib or counterfort is to tie together the curtain wall and the horizontal slab.
The statement that "there is absolutely no analogy between this triangle [the counterfort] and a beam" is very strong language, and it seems risky, even for the best engineer, to make such a statement as does the author when he characterizes his own design (Diagram _b_ of Fig.
Thacher does not make clear what he means by "overturning stress." He seems to mean the force tending to pull the counterfort loose from the horizontal slab.
There is positively no way in which this wall could fail (as far as the counterfort is concerned) but by the pulling apart of the rods or the tearing out of this anchoring angle.