Talus: The sloping or scarped face at the base of a fortifications wall.
The sharp angle at the base of all walls and towers along their exterior surface; talus.
Batter - also known as talus or plinth. A sloping part of a curtain wall. The sharp angle at the base of all walls and towers along their exterior surface; talus. Outward slope of a revetment.
Battery - grouping of artillery.
The restored Stoa of Attalus, Athens.
Architecture, executed to considered design, was extinct in Greece from the end of the Mycenaean period (about 1200 BC) to the 7th century BC, ...
anklebone, astragalus, talus
bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates ...
Batter - A sloping part of a curtain wall. The sharp angle at the base of all walls and towers along their exterior surface; talus.
 See also: Brick, Masonry, Plaster, Hall, Church
  
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