A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).
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.