gambrel
Meaning of gambrel
noun
a roof with two sides, each of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one.
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘bent piece of wood or iron to hang carcasses on’): from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambier ‘forked stick’, from gambe ‘leg’. The sense ‘hipped roof’ (mid 19th century) is based on an earlier meaning ‘joint in the upper part of a horse's hind leg’, the shape of which the roof resembles.
Information about gambrel
- It is a name.
- The plural form of gambrel is: gambrels.
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Hyphenation of gambrel
gam-brel
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- gambrel is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Words that rhyme with gambrel
BSLabRel, cambrel, chambrel, timbrel, tumbrel, umbrel, whimbrel, wimbrel, Enbrel
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