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ˈgambrel Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 6–7 gambrell, 7 gamberel, gambril(l, gamrell, (8–9 dial. gammerel), 7– gambrel. See also cambrel, chambrel, gamble n.2
[Perh. a. OF. (Norman) *gamberel, the pl. of which occurs in a document of 1452 (Godefroy); ‘Les bouchiers d'Evreux, quant ilz passent parmi le bois dudit seigneur, peulent prendre{ddd}des gambereaulx et des verges pour prendre leurs bestes.’ This seems to agree with sense 1 of the English word, and gambier is still found in Normandy with this meaning (Littré Suppl.).
As F. gambier means also a hooked stick (see gambeer), and the Eng. cambrel is synonymous with gambrel in both its applications, a derivation from the Celtic *cambo- crooked (see cam a.) seems not unlikely; for sense 2 cf. ham n.1, which appears to be from the same root.]
1. a. (See quot. 1887); = cambrel 1.
1547Salesbury Welsh Dict., Kambren kic, a gambrell. 1606Chapman Mons. D'Olive Plays 1873 I. 228 My selfe indeed..spide two of them hang out at a stall with a gambrell thrust from shoulder to shoulder, like a Sheepe that were new flead. 1618W. Lawson New Orch. & Garden (1626) 37 The common homely Proverbe: Soone crookes the tree that good Gamrell must bee. a1640Day Peregr. Schol. (1881) 44 And first a Butcher..stands up and sweares..he wold cutte his throate and hang him up by the heles of a gambrill. 1887Kent Gloss., Gambrel or Gamblestick, a stick used to spread open and hang up a pig or other slaughtered animal.
b. A similar piece of wood for hanging clothes upon.
a1652Brome City Wit iv. i. Wks. 1873 I. 335 When she reads my poverty agen, And that these Garments must return to th' Gambrels, Her scorn will be impetuous.
2. a. The joint in the upper part of a horse's hind leg; the hock: = cambrel 2.
1601Holland Pliny I. 225 Calues..whose taile reacheth to the joint of the haugh or gambrill. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2278/4 A Coach-Horse..a Scar upon his near Gamberel. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Horse-feeder, Bathe his Legs well from the Knee and Gambrels downwards. c1788Howard Encycl. II. 1157/2 His hocks or gambrels neither standing too wide, nor too near together. 1880E. Cornw. Gloss., Gambrel, the hock of the animal.
b. dial. In human beings: The under side of the thigh just above the knee.
c1746Exmoor Scolding 153 (E.D.S.) Gammerels. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., Shockin pain in my gammerel.
3. U.S. Short for gambrel roof.
1859in Bartlett Dict. Amer. 1873T. W. Higginson Oldport Days 45 Sometimes with the long, sloping roof of Massachusetts, oftener with the quaint ‘gambrel’ of Rhode Island.
4. attrib. and Comb., as gambrel-joint, gambrel sinew. Also gambrel-roof orig. U.S., a curved or hipped roof, so called from its resemblance to the shape of a horse's hind-leg; hence gambrel-roofed adj.
1876J. Burroughs Winter-Sunshine iv. 104 A fox struggling with a trap which held him by the hind leg, above the *gambrel-joint!
[1737in Old-Time New Eng. (1926) July 21 One Tenement two Stories upright, with a Gambering Roof.] 1765Massachusetts Gaz. 19 Dec. (Th.), A large building with two upright Stories and a *Gambrel Roof. 1851S. Judd Margaret vi. 30 Here and there was a house in the then new style, three-storied, with gambrel roof and dormer windows. 1861Mrs. Stowe Pearl Orr's Isl. 31 The afternoon sunbeams..are painting the gambrel-roof with a golden brown.
1779in Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. II. 466 The [Indian] Queens Pallace was a *gambril ruft house. 1824Microscope 21 Feb. (Th.), In a gambrel-roof'd house,..She dwelt with a heart void of care. 1858Mrs. Stowe Minister's Wooing i, A small farm, with a modest, ‘gambrel-roofed,’ one-story cottage.
1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5341/4 A white spot on the *gambrel Sinew on the near Leg behind.
Hence ˈgambrelled pa. pple., stuck on a gambrel.
a1625Fletcher Nice Valour iv. i, Ile box you..And carrie you gambril'd thither like a mutton. |