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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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gambrel

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Noun

HYPHEN

gam=brel

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun gambrel has 1 sense

gambrel(n = noun.artifact) gambrel roof - a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper; Array

is a kind of gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback, saddleback roof

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CIDE DICTIONARY

gambrel, n. [OF. gambe, jambe leg, F. jambe. Cf. Cambrel, Chambrel, and see Gambol. n.].

The hind leg of a horse. [1913 Webster]
A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals. [1913 Webster]

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.

gambrel, v. t.

To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel. Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

gambrel, n. (in full gambrel roof)
1 Brit. a roof like a hipped roof but with gable-like ends.
2 US = curb roof.

Etymology

ONF gamberel f. gambier forked stick f. gambe leg (from the resemblance to the shape of a horse's hind leg)

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THESAURUS

gambrel

ankle, bayonet legs, bowlegs, calf, cnemis, drumstick, foreleg, gamb, gigot, ham, hind leg, hock, jamb, knee, leg, limb, podite, popliteal space, scissor-legs, shank, shin, stems, stumps, tarsus, trotters

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