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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..

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

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..

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

Slopewise :: Slopewise (adv.) Obliquely.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..

Slant :: Slant (v. i.) To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault..

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

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

Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right..

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

Bray :: Bray (n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling..

Calade :: Calade (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches..

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

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..

Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..

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

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

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

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