A rod, beam, piece of masonry, etc., imbedded in the earth at one end, and connected at the other end with a wall or other building in order to secure it in position, or to relieve it from the pressure of a bank, etc.
1715. Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), I. 82. The Banks are exposed to be wash’d away by the Waters, whence the Bridge in such a case would become destitute of Land-tyes, and remain an Island. Ibid., II. 27. Another Wall with Stone Land-ties, that enter’d into the Hill.
1874. Thearle, Naval Archit., 9. In the Royal dockyards, where the ground of the building slip is paved with hewn stone, it is customary to alternate with the latter transverse baulks of timber, termed ‘land ties.’
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., Land-tie, a rod securing a face-wall to a bank.
