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Mansard Roof :: Mansard roof () A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one..

Chinook :: Chinook (n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory..

Gradient :: Gradient (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.

Backhand :: Backhand (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

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..

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

Bent :: Bent (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill..

Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

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

Bankside :: Bankside (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam..

Cant :: Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.

Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..

Die :: Die (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face..

Talus :: Talus (n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.

Batter :: Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.

Brae :: Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.

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

Corbiestep :: Corbiestep (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

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