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Definition of Corbel
1. Noun. (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent).
2. Verb. Furnish with a corbel.
Definition of Corbel
1. n. A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
2. v. t. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Definition of Corbel
1. Noun. (architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corbel
1. to provide a wall with a bracket [v -BELED, -BELING, -BELS or -BELLED, -BELLING, -BELS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corbel
Literary usage of Corbel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"The motive frequently appears in the second half of the XI and in the XII
century.7 One of the most curious developments of the arched corbel- table was the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"corbel VAULT. A vault made by corbelled courses, as of stone (see corbel Arch).
... FSD corbel WORK. In Moorish and other Mohammedan styles, ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"It is unnecessary in small corbels where a comparatively light load is sustained,
to employ these calculations and diagrams, but where the corbel is of ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages by John BRITTON (1838)
"6, exhibits the corbel in its simplest form; in fig. ... In some of the annexed
examples, the corbel- table is formed by a succession of small arches; ..."
5. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"(the front part of a pair of breeches) ; the allied Span, bragueta also meant a
projecting mould in architecture, a bracket Dr corbel. Dimin. of OF trague, ..."
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