A hipped roof to a house, so called from its resemblance to the hind leg of a horse, which by farriers is termed the gambrel.
Here and there was a house in the then new style, three cornered, with gambled roof and dormer windows.--Margaret, p. 33.
·noun The hind leg of a horse. II. Gambrel ·vt To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel. III. Gam...
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