counterslope
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
counterslope (plural counterslopes)
- An overhanging slope.
- a wall with a counterslope
- 1867, Dennis Hart Mahan, An Elementary Course of Military Engineering, volume 1, John Wiley & Son, page 206:
- Embrasures of howitzers and guns firing under great angles of elevation may receive a counterslope, giving the sole nearly the same inclination, from the sill upwards, as the least angle of elevation under which it may be required to aim the piece
Verb edit
counterslope (third-person singular simple present counterslopes, present participle countersloping, simple past and past participle countersloped)
- (intransitive) To slope on the opposite side or direction.
References edit
- Online Oxford English Dictionary[1]