Definition of Gambrel roof

1. Noun. A gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper.

Exact synonyms: Gambrel
Generic synonyms: Gable Roof, Saddle Roof, Saddleback, Saddleback Roof

Definition of Gambrel roof

1. Noun. A roof design having two slopes on the sides and gables in the ends. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gambrel Roof

gamboge tree
gambogenic
gambogenic acid
gamboges
gambogian
gambogic
gambogic acid
gambol
gamboled
gamboling
gambolled
gambolling
gambols
gambos
gambrel
gambrel roof (current term)
gambrel roofs
gambrelled
gambrels
gambrinous
gambroon
gambroons
gambs
gambusia
gambusias
game-bird
game-changing
game-of-chance
game-point

Literary usage of Gambrel roof

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

1. Farm Buildings by William Arthur Foster, Deane G. Carter (1922)
"The gambrel roof has already been discussed. This type of roof has two slopes in each side of the roof for which the rafters and braces must be cut. ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A gambrel-roof. A gambler's acquaintance is readily made and easily kept .... gambrel-roof (gam'brel-röf), n. A roof the slope of which is broken by an ..."

3. The Colonial Architecture of Salem by Frank Cousins, Phil Madison Riley (1919)
"During these years the gambrel-roof house was the prevailing style, ... The gambrel roof represents an evolution of the seventeenth-century Mansard roof, ..."

4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1824 In a gambrel-roof'd house, by the side of the road, Gambrel-roof. See quot. 1858. A gambrel is a crooked piece of wood, on which butchers hang up the ..."

5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"(Born in a house with a gambrel-roof, Born there ? Don't aay so! ... the old gambrel roof. Ah! many's the day since there I have been, And bitter the tears ..."

6. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"Of course, when we say we have not been able to find the source of the gambrel-roof in England, we do not mean that no examples of the type are to be found ..."

7. History of Concord, New Hampshire: From the Original Grant in Seventeen by James Otis Lyford, Amos Hadley, Will B. Howe (1896)
"... 1731, it appears that no less than eighty- five dwelling-houses were at that time wholly or partially finished, 'rrc^. • The gambrel roof House. ..."

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