English-Thai Dictionary
gambrel
N ฝูง สัตว์
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GAMBREL
n.The hind leg of a horse. Hence, in America, a crooked stick used by butchers. A hipped roof is called a gambrel-roof.
GAMBREL
v.t.To tie by the leg.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
GAMBREL
Gam "brel, n Etym: [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.
GAMBREL
GAMBREL Gam "brel v. t.
Defn: To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel. Beau. & Fl.
New American Oxford Dictionary
gambrel
gam brel |ˈgambrəl ˈɡæmbrəl |(also gambrel roof ) ▶noun a roof with two sides, each of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. • a hip roof with a small gable forming the upper part of each end. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘bent piece of wood or iron used by butchers to hang carcasses on ’): from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambier ‘forked stick, ’ from gambe ‘leg. ’ The sense ‘hip roof ’ (mid 19th cent. ) is based on an earlier meaning ‘joint in the upper part of a horse's hind leg, ’ the shape of which the roof resembles.
Oxford Dictionary
gambrel
gambrel |ˈgambr (ə )l |(also gambrel roof ) ▶noun a roof with two sides, each of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. • Brit. a hipped roof with a small gable forming the upper part of each end. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (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 cent. ) is based on an earlier meaning ‘joint in the upper part of a horse's hind leg ’, the shape of which the roof resembles.
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