Results for gable

Definitions of gable:

part of speech: noun

( arch.) The triangular part of an exterior wall of a building between the top of the side- walls and the slopes of the roof.

part of speech: noun

The triangular part of the end of a house or building between the eaves and the summit.

part of speech: noun

The triangular end of a building.

Usage examples for gable:

• Willing hands helped, and the cart was run violently up against the gable Hunky shouting to some of the men to fetch more hay. "Charlie to the Rescue", R.M. Ballantyne

• The two windows pinched together in each gable gave to the end of the building likeness to a hideous face. "King Spruce, A Novel", Holman Day

• The inn has recently lost its thatch, but is still a quaint little house with the typical Yorkshire gable finished with a stone ball. "Yorkshire Painted And Described", Gordon Home

• The gable of the new study showed among the trees, and I pointed it out to him. "The Boys' Life of Mark Twain", Albert Bigelow Paine