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Webster 1913 Edition
Gambrel
1.
The hind leg of a horse.
2.
A stick crooked like a horse’s hind leg; – used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Gambrel roof
(Arch.)
, a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.
Gam′brel
Verb.
T.
To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.
Beau. & Fl.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gambrel
GAM'BREL
,Noun.
GAM'BREL
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
gambrel
gambrel
English
Noun
gambrel (plural gambrels)
- The hind leg of a horse.
- (chiefly historical and obsolete outside dialects) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
- (US, architecture) A gambrel roof.
Translations
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Derived terms
Verb
gambrel (third-person singular simple present gambrels, present participle gambrelling or gambreling, simple past and past participle gambrelled or gambreled)
- To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.9:
- They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.9: