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Corbel

noun, verb

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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