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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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