·vt To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
II. Corbel ·noun A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
·noun A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used...
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