Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gambrel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gambrel \Gam"brel\, n. [OF. gambe, jambe leg, F. jambe. Cf.
{Cambrel}, {Chambrel}, and see {Gambol}. n.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gambrel \Gam"brel\ v. t.
To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel. --Beau. & Fl.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gambrel
adj : (of a roof) having two slopes each side of the ridge; "a big
barn with a gambrel roof"
n : a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower
slope being steeper [syn: {gambrel roof}]
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