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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..

Slope :: Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.

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..

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

Hang :: Hang (n.) A sharp or steep declivity or 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.

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

Breastheight :: Breastheight (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing..

Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.

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

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

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

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..

Subaltern :: Subalpine (a.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line..

Slant :: Slant (n.) A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant..

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