LekhoriLekhoriA 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.
From Middle French contrefort.
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