skewback
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
skewback (plural skewbacks)
- (architecture) The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.
- 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
- The avalanche shelter itself consists of a series of heavily reinforced arches, supported by substantial piers on the cliff-side, and on skewbacks cut deep into the rock on the other.
References[edit]
- “skewback”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.