Research Results For 'Gambrel'

GAMBREL

A gambrel is a frame of wood or metal shaped like a horse's hind leg, used by butchers for suspending carcasses of meat.
Research Gambrel

GABLE

In architecture a gable is the vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. The name is also, given to a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. Hence the term applies to the end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side, and a decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.
Research Gable

GAMBREL ROOF

In architecture a gambrel roof is 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.
Research Gambrel Roof

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