counterslope
verbEtymology From counter- + slope.
1
To slope on the opposite side or direction.
counterslope
nounEtymology From counter- + slope.
1
An overhanging slope.
- a wall with a counterslope
- Embrasures of howitzers and guns firing under great angles of elevation may receive a counterslope, giving the sole nearly the same inclination, from the sill upwards, as the least angle of elevation under which it may be required to aim the piece1867, Dennis Hart Mahan, An Elementary Course of Military Engineering, volume 1, John Wiley & Son, page 206: