2. A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.
Syn. -- slipstream, race, backwash, wash [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Men may the olde atrenne, but hat atrede. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A spindle or axle of a wheel. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches. Tennent. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When an external projection is used merely to stiffen a wall, it is a pier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which supports or strengthens. “The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flying buttress. See Flying buttress. [ 1913 Webster ]

To set it upright again, and to prop and buttress it up for duration. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]