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Word entry · 7 letters

gambrel

Best crossword clue

"Barn roof style"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡæmbɹəl/Part of speech nounSorted abeglmrStarts with GEnds with L1 clues
1G2A3M4B5R6E7L

Definitions

  1. a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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
  • They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.
  • And meet me; or I'll box you while I have you, And carry you gambril'd thither like a mutton

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