All 3 Uses of
buttress
in
The Two Towers
- Out from their feet were flung huge buttresses and broken hills that were now at the nearest scarce a dozen miles away.†
Chpt 4.2 *
- They lay now peering over the edge of a rocky hollow beneath the out-stretched shadow of the northmost buttress of Ephel Duath.†
Chpt 4.3
- The hollow in which they had taken refuge was delved in the side of a low hill, at some little height above a long trenchlike valley that lay between it and the outer buttresses of the mountains.†
Chpt 4.3
Definition:
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(buttress as in: buttress the defenses) make stronger or defensible