gambrel

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Noun

1. The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
2. (dialectal, historical, obsolete) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
3. A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
4. A gambrel roof.

Verb

To truss or hang up using a gambrel.

Từ đồng nghĩa

gambrel roof

hock

curb roof

gable

mansard

mansard roof

Bản dịch

jarret

οπίσθιο σκέλος ίππου

toit à deux pentes

Felemenk çatısı

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ˈɡæmbɹəl/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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