gambrels
Meaning of gambrels
plural 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 gambrels
- It is a name.
- The singular form of gambrels is: gambrel.
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Hyphenation of gambrels
gam-brels
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- gambrels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of gambrels
Words that rhyme with gambrels
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