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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-100/
- Published: 2019-11-08T17:15:56.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-08T01:17:28.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

buttress (noun) – 1\. A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement.  
2\. Something resembling a buttress, as:  
(a) The flared base of certain tree trunks.  
(b) A horny growth on the heel of a horse’s hoof.  
3\. Something that serves to support, prop, or reinforce.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/buttress?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Early 14th century, “structure built against a wall to give it stability,” from Old French (arc) botrez “flying buttress,” apparently from bouter, boter “to thrust against,” a word of Frankish origin (compare Old Norse bauta “to strike, beat”), from Proto-Germanic \*butan, from PIE root \*bhau- “to strike.” Figurative sense “any source of support” is from mid-15th century.