Gambrel

·noun The hind leg of a horse.

II. Gambrel ·vt To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

III. Gambrel ·noun A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg;

— used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

gambrel
A hipped roof to a house, so called from its resemblance to the hind leg of a horse, which by farrie...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.