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Berme :: Berme (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank..

Slopeness :: Slopeness (n.) State of being slope.

Glacis :: Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)..

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east..

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.

Splayfeet :: Splay (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds..

Versant :: Versant (n.) The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect..

Sloped :: Sloped (imp. & p. p.) of Slop.

Counterscarf :: Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp..

Dormer Window :: Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained..

Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Pendence :: Pendence (n.) Slope; inclination.

Basil :: Basil (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

Herringbone :: Herringbone (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions..

Weatherboard :: Weatherboard (n.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath..

Esplanade :: Esplanade (n.) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country..

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