Word.ws English Dictionary

neck-gables

neck-gables is the plural of neck-gable.

Meaning of neck-gable

Noun

neck-gable (plural neck-gables)

  1. a type of gable in vogue between the 17th and the 18th centuries in the Netherlands with a rectangular body (resembling a neck, hence the name) in place of the usual triangular shape found with a regular gable

Questions about neck-gables

What is neck-gables the plural of?
Neck-gables is the plural of neck-gable.

Words near neck-gables in the dictionary

  1. neck-braces
  2. neck-cloth
  3. neck-cloths
  4. neck-deep
  5. neck-gable
  6. neck-gables
  7. neck-guard
  8. neck-guards
  9. neck-kerchief
  10. neck-kerchiefs
  11. neck-kerchieves

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: neck-gables (page history and authors); neck-gable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “neck-gables.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/neck-gables. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.