Usually means: Supportive buttresses on dam walls.
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  1. counterfort: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterfort: Collins English Dictionary
  3. counterfort: Wordnik
  4. counterfort: Wiktionary
  5. counterfort: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Counterfort, counterfort: Dictionary.com
  7. Counterfort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. counterfort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Counterfort: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. counterfort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. counterfort: FreeDictionary.org
  12. counterfort: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. Counterfort: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (counterfort)

▸ noun:  A buttress built against a wall.
▸ noun:  A spur of a mountain range.

Similar:
buttress, countermure, counterguard, fortification curtain, bastion, abutment, flying buttress, forewall, offset, redoubt, more...

Opposite:
buttress, support, reinforcement

Types:
buttress, flywheel, pivot, lever, fulcrum, more...

Adjectives:
first, trapezoidal, such, front, sheer, west, triangular, western

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Similar:
buttress, countermure, counterguard, fortification curtain, bastion, abutment, flying buttress, forewall, offset, redoubt, more...

Opposite:
buttress, support, reinforcement

Types:
buttress, flywheel, pivot, lever, fulcrum, more...

Adjectives:
first, trapezoidal, such, front, sheer, west, triangular, western



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