a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
Verb:
crouch down
draw back, as with fear or pain;
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
cross one's eyes as if in strabismus;
"The children squinted so as to scare each other"
例句
例句
To allow a dome to rest above a square base, either of two devices was used: the squinch (an arch in each of the corners of a square base that transforms it into an octagon) or the pendentive.