noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

   "The booking hall is lofty and of peculiar design, the roof being carried on timbered beams set in pairs rising from carved corbels."

2. 2
   (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. transitive
2. 2
   furnish with a corbel wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

beambracketcorbfriezehobledge

Example

More examples

"As a rule the corbel table carries the gutter."

Etymology

From Middle English corbel, from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”).

Related phrases

corbel outcorbel tablecorbel archcorbie step

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