counterslopen.
1. The opposite slope of a hill, a ridge, etc.; a slope in the opposite direction.
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1853 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xxxii. 359 The rising of a counterslope almost imperceptible to the eye.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 105 The counter-slope of this ridge is narrow.
2. ‘An overhanging slope; as, a wall with a counter-slope’ (Webster 1864).
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1838–46 Mahan Civil Engineering.
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counterslopev.
transitive. To slope on the opposite side (in quot. 1828, on the inner side).
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1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 353 In all these cases he supposes the revêtement to be countersloped, that is, to have the exterior face in a vertical plane, and the interior face inclined.
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