counterfort means A buttress built against a wall. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
noun
- A buttress built against a wall.“This involved new track drainage, strengthening of embankments and cuttings and the provision of counterforts.”
- A spur of a mountain range.“With its counterforts projecting some 300 miles, [the Pamir] forms the western headland of all the plateaux and mountain systems skirting the Chinese Empire; it completely separates the two halves of Asia, and forms an almost impassable barrier to migration and warlike incursions.”