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Catchwork :: Catchwork (n.) A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

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..

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)..

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

Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

Declension :: Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

Curb Roof :: Curb roof () A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof..

Bevel :: Bevel (v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

Amphitheatre :: Amphitheatre (n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater..

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..

Declivity :: Declivity (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity..

Incline :: Incline (n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

Lean-to :: Lean-to (a.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof.

Glissade :: Glissade (n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps..

Escarp :: Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap..

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

Aslope :: Aslope (adv. & a.) Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another..

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