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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Glacier :: Glacier (n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof..

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.

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

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..

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..

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

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes..

Plongee :: Plongee (n.) A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course..

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..

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

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..

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part..

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