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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OF.

gambe

jambe

leg, F.

jambe

. Cf.

, and see

Noun.

]

The hind leg of a horse.

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.

Verb.

To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

Beau. & Fl.

Noun.

The hind leg of a horse. Hence, in America, a crooked stick used by butchers. A hipped roof is called a gambrel-roof.

Verb.

To tie by the leg.