Hypertext Webster Gateway: "corbel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Corbel \Cor"bel\, v. t.
To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel;
to make in the form of a corbel.
{To corbel out}, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each
projecting beyond the one next below it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Corbel \Cor"bel\, n. [F. corbeau, for older corbel, dim. of L.
corbis basket. (Corbels were often in the form of a basket.)
See {Corbeil}.] (Arch.)
A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving
the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in
Gothic architecture.
Note: A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones
or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next
below it.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
corbel
n : (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone
(usually of slight extent) [syn: {truss}]
v : furnish with a corbel, as in architecture
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