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Gambrel

//ˈɡæmbɹəl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
  2. 2
    a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper wordnet
  3. 3
    A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering. dialectal, historical, obsolete

    "Within two hours the hog - killed, scalded, and scraped of its hair - was hanging pale from a big tree limb by a gambrel stick run through the tendons of its hind feet"

  4. 4
    A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
  5. 5
    A gambrel roof.
Verb
  1. 1
    To truss or hang up using a gambrel.

    "They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).

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