Definitions for gambrel

gambrel gam·brel

Spelling: [gam-bruh l]
IPA: /ˈgæm brəl/

Gambrel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in gambrel (abeglmr).

Definitions for gambrel

noun

  1. the hock of an animal, especially of a horse.
  2. Also called gambrel stick. a wood or metal device for suspending a slaughtered animal.

Origin of gambrel

1540-50; Old North French gamberel, akin to French jambier legging, jambe leg

Examples for gambrel

The building itself is a stern, dignified, two-story house with a gambrel roof.

The gambrel or Octagonal Roof, and consists of two eight and two nine inch boards thirty-four inches long.

It has a gambrel roof, and is on the left when the train is going westward.

The Star and the Crescent have fitted up one room under the gambrel very tastefully.

And often those with the gambrel prolonged the strain, being provokingly slow, in hopes to make the holder drop his burden.

It is a low building, with a gambrel roof and a huge chimney.

gambrel, gam′brel, n. the hock of a horse: a crooked stick used by butchers for suspending a carcass while dressing it.

The gambrel roof is shingled, descends low and has dormer windows.

The opposite end is very different, and has a hipped or gambrel gable.

I turned about, and, addressing gambrel earnestly, entreated him to "hang on to the wheel."

Word Value for gambrel
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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