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Abutment

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1613, OED Evaluation: Obscure, rare

a projecting spit of land, a promontory

ExampleMeaning
Oh yes, the trai-- tracks was right up alongside the canal, it was kind-of all abutment in the s-- n-- net-work, you-see.
a projecting spit of land, a promontory
ExampleMeaning
I mean the water damage alone, uh it just washed houses away, and um, and ah there was a trailer park just north of Lakeshore Road, big trailer park, well the trailers were being washed down, they 'd come under the bridge, someone would get caught at the, you-know the big centre p-- uh abutment, be caught there for a while and then it finally get loose and go right out the river.
a projecting spit of land, a promontory
ExampleMeaning
We could smoke but we used to then walk across the trestle of the ah train bridge underneath it where there was this four-inch ledge and it was about ah maybe forty-foot crossing but we were twenty-feet above the rocks. So we would hand-over-hand cross the bridge to the next abutment. I would never let my kids do some of the things that we did as a kid growing up in Beaverton.
a projecting spit of land, a promontory
ExampleMeaning
And ah- I- I- I drove in and instead of putting on the- on the brake, I put on the- the gas, and I hit the abutment and damaged my brand new car.
a projecting spit of land, a promontory