Definitions for corbels

corbels cor·bel

Spelling: [kawr-buh l]
IPA: /ˈkɔr bəl/

Corbels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in corbels (bcelors).

Definitions for corbels

noun

  1. any bracket, especially one of brick or stone, usually of slight extent.
  2. a short horizontal timber supporting a girder.

verb (used with object)

  1. to set (bricks, stones, etc.) so as to form a corbel or corbels (usually followed by out).
  2. to support by means of a corbel or corbels.

Origin of corbels

1375-1425; late Middle English Middle French Medieval Latin corvellus, equivalent to Latin corv(us) raven1 + -ellus diminutive suffix

Examples for corbels

There is no triforium, its position being taken throughout the church by corbel tables in the form of human and animal faces.

Skew corbel, a stone placed at the base of the sloping side of a gable wall to resist any sliding tendency of the sloping coping.

corbel, a stone built into a wall and projecting to form a cantilever, supporting a load beyond the face of the wall.

corbel Table, a lino of small corbels placed at short distances apart supporting a parapet or arcade.

Here we again find the boveda, the corbel roof, the pointed arch observed in previous buildings.

The reader will notice that in this monument the corbel vault is more convex, and recalls that of a ruinous palace at Palenque.

You know how to lay a corbel, but just now you couldn't tell me how much cribbing was coming.

I'll be back at the office as soon as I get this corbel laid.

We cross rivulets formerly spanned by bridges, of which bricks and a corbel vault are still visible.

There is a corbel table like it but more elaborate at Vezelay in Burgundy.

Word Value for corbels
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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