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COUNTERFORT

Definition: COUNTERFORT

COUNTERFORT

Noun

1. A spur or projection of a mountain.

2. A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: COUNTERFORT

Language Translations for "COUNTERFORT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

подпора (abut, abutment, brace, bracing, bracket, jamb, pillar, post, prop, puncheon, rest, shore, sprag, stand, stock, stull, support, tree, upright). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

támpillér (buttress, pier). (various references)

   

Italian

  

contrafforte (buttress). (various references)

   

Manx

  

far-vhuttoor. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ounterfortcay

   

Portuguese

  

contraforte (abutment). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

contrafort (buttress, shoulder). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

контрфорс (abutment, buttress). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cantidad de fuerza. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

контрфорс, підпірка (backing, balk, chock, pit prop, post, puncheon, shore, stanchion, trellis, upholder). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tường chống. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COUNTERFORT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-n-o-o-r-r-t-t-u"

-1 letter: frontcourt.

-2 letters: forecourt, recontour.

-3 letters: confetto, confuter, frotteur, trouncer.

-4 letters: confute, contort, contour, cornute, cornuto, coroner, coronet, counter, courter, crofter, crooner, crouton, current, forerun, fortune, fronter, frounce, functor, recount, refront, torrent, torture, trounce.

-5 letters: confer, cooter, corner, cornet, cotter, cotton, couter, croton, curter, cutter, enroot, foetor, footer, forcer, furore, nutter, rector, reroof, retorn, retort, return.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-f-n-o-o-r-r-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: countereffort.

 

+3 letters: counterefforts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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