A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town
A fortress at the end of a bridge.
A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
Anything that supports or strengthens.
A buttress-root.
Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.