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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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 [syn: {gambrel roof}]
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