gambrel

See also: Gambrel

English

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).

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.

Derived terms

Translations

roof

Finnish: taitekatto (fi)
French: toit à deux pentes m
Hungarian: nyeregtető
Serbo-Croatian: krov sa dva nagiba

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, page 9:
  They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.
- c. 1615–1616, Thomas Middleton; John Fletcher, “The Nice Valovr, or, The Passionate Mad-man”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  And meet me; or I'll box you while I have you, And carry you gambril'd thither like a mutton

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gambrel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

gambler

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