skewback

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
23
Words With Friends
25
Letters
8

Definition of skewback

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.
    “The avalanche shelter itself consists of a series of heavily reinforced arches, supported by substantial piers on the cliff-side, and on skewbacks cut deep into the rock on the other.”

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Etymology

From skew + back.

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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