gambrel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
  2. A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering. dialectal,historical,obsolete
    — 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
  3. A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
  4. A gambrel roof.
动词 v.
  1. To truss or hang up using a gambrel.
    — They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.

词形变化

gambrels plural gambrels present,singular,third-person gambreling US,participle,present gambrelling UK,participle,present gambreled US,participle,past gambreled US,past gambrelled UK,participle,past gambrelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
gambrel roof gambrel-roofed

词源

词源 1
Uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).
词源 2
Uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).
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