Definition of "buttresses" []

• Plural form of buttress. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buttress. (verb)

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• "Basically you cut away low branches and remove the buttresses from the bottom of the trunk."
• "Halperin buttresses his defense with a call for historians to engage in a valiant struggle: "to work against his or her intuitions, to counter them with hard-won apprehension of irreducible historical difference" (15)."
• "The weathered and channelled backs of five of the buttresses are the same date as those south of the nave; but the easternmost one has a flat raking back like those to the north and south of the choir and presbytery."