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Definition of Gable end

1. Noun. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gable End

Literary usage of Gable end

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"The dotted lines in the annexed section exhibit the manner in which the northern gable-end of the Poet's mansion rested against the higher southern wall of ..."

2. Carpentry Made Easy, Or, The Science and Art of Framing, on a New and by William E. Bell (1859)
"The length of the gable-end studding may be found by first calculating the length of the longest one, which stands under the very peak, and then obtaining ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A point or pointed instrument, as a pointed bar of steel, a spear, or an arrowhead. gable-end (gà ' blend'), a. The end- wall of a building on a side where ..."

4. Pennsylvania School Architecture: A Manual of Directions and Plans for by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Thomas Henry Burrowes (1855)
"... is, that there should be no window in the back gable end of the building, which should be placed towards the north. Many School-houses, mostly of brick, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"gable end. In a building having a double pitch roof, one of the end walls which terminates ... A. Same as gable end. B. By extension, in the United States, ..."

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