Abutments is valid Scrabble Word

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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for ABUTMENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:

ABUTMENT, a buttress of an arch, also BUTMENT
the process of supporting something with an abutment
a point at which something abuts against something else
a structure built to support the lateral pressure of an arch or span, e.g. at the ends of a bridge

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

something that abuts

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How to use ABUTMENTS in a sentence

They are built upon a grand scale, and after the Italian style, with terraces, supported by strong abutments, decked with vases of plants.
The town lies on both sides of the chasm, which is spanned by a stone bridge of a single arch, with abutments nearly four hundred feet in height.
Some learned writers think that those stately abutments are too massive for the red man of the forest to have constructed.
The abutments on either side of the Straits are huge piles of masonry.
One of the corner abutments of one of the towers has fallen down and a great portion of what remains seem to indicate rapid decay.
Rennie was consulted, who pronounced the bridge altogether dangerous, in consequence of the weakness of the abutments.
And for the abutments of the arch of proof the money-spending sufficed.
A Swiss leaned sleepily against one of the stone abutments which supported the barriers of the Porte Saint Antoine.
An arch thrust can result only with true arch action, that is, with stable abutments, and the mass stressed wholly in compression, with corresponding shortening of the arch line.
At the sound of the shots the rest of the rescuers came from their ambush behind the walls that lined the road, and from the shadow of the abutments of the railway arch.

The canal boat, with its cargo of stone had no more than fairly left the eastern side, when a large raft was observed emerging from between two abutments of the bridge above.
Can you find the thickness of the abutments, the rise and span of the arch being given? 84.
A wooden bridge crossed the Murray and its large abutments loaded with great boulders told of formidable spring floods sweeping down the valley.
He estimated that nature had stored more uranium in but one of the abutments of this cliff than in all the known mines of the entire world.
The abutments also must be strong enough to take safely the thrust of the weighted arch, as the slightest movement in these supports will cause deflection and failure.
On the other hand, a girder imposes only a vertical load on its piers and abutments, and not a horizontal thrust, as in the case of an arch or suspension chain.
Two main towers in the river and two towers on the shore abutments carry the suspension chains.
The arch is formed by two lattice ribs hinged at the abutments.
The bridge when closed is supported on abutments at each end.
The cost of abutments and bridge flooring is practically independent of the length of span adopted.
An arch of masonry, however large it may be, is not necessarily a piece of construction complete in itself, for it would fall to pieces without abutments.
Ross was now wedged between two abutments he could not see and from which his best efforts could not free him.
Heavy vases filled with trailing flowers adorn its abutments, and from this it is sometimes called the Flower Bridge.
It is a queer stone bridge, with two abutments and one arch stretching across from one mountain to another, high up in the air.
Among other things, he told them of the abutments and ancient masonry he had seen while going through some of the wildest canyons, that could not be approached in any way.
In Byzantine work there were no external buttresses, the plans being arranged to include them in cross-walls or interior abutments.
Many excellent and solid bridges, with stone abutments, existed at the time of the transfer of the island to the American nation.
In 1805, the bridge across the Merrimack was demolished and a new bridge with stone piers and abutments was constructed.
The four abutments with their retaining walls are of first-class rock-faced masonry.
Two of the large abutments were completed last season.

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