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skewback (複数形 skewbacks)

1. (architecture) The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.
   • 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:

     The avalanche shelter itself consists of a series of heavily reinforced arches, supported by substantial piers on the cliff-side, and on skewbacks cut deep into the rock on the other.