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gambrels

gambrels is the plural of gambrel.

Meaning of gambrel

Noun

gambrel (plural gambrels)

  1. The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
  2. (dialectal, historical, obsolete) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
    • Within two hours the hog - killed, scalded, and scraped of its hair - was hanging pale from a big tree limb by a gambrel stick run through the tendons of its hind feet1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 307
  3. A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
    Synonyms:
    gambrel hook
  4. A gambrel roof.

See all 6 meanings of gambrel

Proper noun capitalized: Gambrels

Gambrels

  1. (plural) plural of Gambrel

Questions about gambrels

What is gambrels the plural of?
Gambrels is the plural of gambrel.
What part of speech is gambrels?
Gambrels is a proper noun.

Words near gambrels in the dictionary

  1. gambreling
  2. Gambrell
  3. gambrelled
  4. gambrelling
  5. Gambrells
  6. gambrels
  7. Gambrills
  8. gambrinous
  9. Gambrinus
  10. gambroon
  11. gambroons

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