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gables

gables is the plural of gable.

Meaning of gable

Noun (1)

gable (plural gables)

  1. The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
    • It was a queer sort of place—a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10

Noun (2)

gable (plural gables)

  1. (obsolete) A cable.
    • First, striking sail, their tacklings then they loosed.
      And (with their gables stoop'd) their mast imposed
      Into the mast-room.1577–83, George Chapman, The Works of George Chapman. Poems and minor translations.The Hymns of Homer: A Hymn to Apollo., Chatto and Windus 1875 https://archive.org/details/cu31924013128347/page/n367

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Proper noun capitalized: Gables

Gables

  1. A suburb of Sydney in The Hills council area, New South Wales, Australia.

Phrases with gables

Questions about gables

What does gables mean?
Gables means a suburb of Sydney in The Hills council area, New South Wales, Australia.
What is gables the plural of?
Gables is the plural of gable.
What part of speech is gables?
Gables is a proper noun.

Words near gables in the dictionary

  1. gableboards
  2. gabled
  3. gablelike
  4. Gabler
  5. Gablers
  6. gables
  7. gablet
  8. gablets
  9. gablewise
  10. gabling
  11. gablings

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