Definitions for gables

gables ga·ble

Spelling: [gey-buh l]
IPA: /ˈgeɪ bəl/

Gables is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in gables (abegls).

Definitions for gables

noun

  1. the portion of the front or side of a building enclosed by or masking the end of a pitched roof.
  2. a decorative member suggesting a gable, used especially in Gothic architecture.
  3. Also called gable wall. a wall bearing a gable.
  4. (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.

Origin of gables

1325-75; Middle English Old French (of Germanic orig.); cognate with Old Norse gafl; compare Old English gafol, geafel a fork

Examples for gables

The gable showed above the trees, and I pointed it out to him.

My mother also liked GWTW because she thought that gable was “almost as handsome as Duke Ellington.”

You did not playfully invite gable in for sex hoping he would be courteous.

The same violent, primal appeal appeared on-screen and off-screen with gable.

If he heard a sigh from the dairy loft, he sat down against the gable and groaned.

Always used of the gable loft, you know, and the wind above the thatch.

You'll find him lying in the garret at the west end of the gable—drunk.

The trouble with gable was that he was under contract to MGM.

One of the ground-floor windows at the gable end of the house was open.

The gable walls of the transepts and the western wall are also Turkish.

Word Value for gables
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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