The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verticle \Ver"ti*cle\, n. [L. verticula a joint.]
An axis; hinge; a turning point.
--E. Waterhouse.
Wiktionary
n. An axis or hinge; a turning point.
Usage examples of "verticle".
From his point of view, they were all standing out horizontally from a verticle grass surface.
He twisted his head to look up at a verticle wall of gray stone blotched with the chalky droppings of birds.
A row of square steel doors with rungs on the outside provided a ladder up, sheltered by a verticle steel half-cylinder.
She spoke without hardness, without pushing, and a small verticle line pinched between her wide green eyes made her look discriminated against, told of being mistaken by narrow minds.
Then the first star-chariot burnt a verticle column of flame in the night.
The cliff remained on her right, towering and rugged, as formidable as castle ramparts, spotted here and there with scrubby vegetation that somehow managed to sustain its perilous existence on the verticle, unsoiled plunge of rock.
Twenty feet of horizontal space and twenty-five of verticle separated them.