, or gabulle.
A term in early voyagers for cable. Thus,
"Softe, ser, seyd the gabulle-rope,
Methinke gode ale is in your tope."
·noun A <<Cable>>. II. Gable ·noun The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or r...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
of a building, the end wall. General. See Baxter's Glossary, p. 1. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose