The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
The state of abutting.
A member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.