gable endn.

Brit.

/ˌɡeɪbl ˈɛnd/, U.S.

/ˈɡeɪb(ə)l ˌɛnd/

Forms: see gable n.¹ and end n.

Etymology: < gable n.¹ + end n.

1. Architecture. One of the end walls of a building, having a triangular section at the top which extends from the eaves to the ridge of the roof. Cf. gable n.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > end wall > with triangular top

gablec1390

gable endc1390

pike wall1440

pine-end1753

pinion-end1825

α.

c1390 (?c1350) St. Bernard l. 299 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 46 In þe gable ende of þe churche Ben þreo wyndouwus.

1427 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) I. 163 The West gabilende of the halle.

1508–9 in D. Dymond Reg. Thetford Priory (1995) I. 252 Pro reparac' fact' apud ofton for the gabyllende of the chauncell.

1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams ix. sig. Av Gable endes, chambers, parlers.

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. D3 I prefer that kind of Tire now;..I affect not these high Gable ends, these Tuscan tops, nor your Coronets, nor your Arches, nor your Pyramid's.

1708 S. Molyneux in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 38 I found all was done on or near the Gabel-end of the House.

1761 Lloyd's Evening Post 4 May Some workmen digging in a vault.., unhappily dug too near the foundation of the house, by which means one half of the gable end of it fell.

1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 115 The numerous gable-ends and bayed windows.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. viii. 296 Now only some one gable-end with its lofty lancets shows the noble scale of the ancient church.

1914 N. Munro New Road ii. 17 Narrow, broken lanes with all the gable-ends of the abutting buildings frontaging the thoroughfare.

1984 B. MacLaverty Cal (new ed.) 45 Cal began stacking the wood against the gable-end, throwing aside the larger chunks.

2007 G. Hayward Small Buildings, Small Gardens 14/1 The arbor..provides the otherwise flat gable end with dimension, depth and detail.

β. 1464 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 374 A lode cley to dawbe þe gavulende with.1597 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 344 Aboute one yearde above the floore, on the south gavell end.1766 Aberdeen Jrnl. 28 July The gavel end of a house in the Gallowgate, adjoining to which a house was building, gave way and fell down.?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 12 Up the gavel end thick spreading, Crap the clasping Ivy green.1873 J. Hamilton Poems & Ballads 64 Ae nicht, when stan'in at the door, I saw him comin' roun' The gavel-en'.1896 J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy ii. I cannot picture the place without seeing her, as a little girl, come to the door of a certain house and beat her bass against the gav'le-end.1931 D. Campbell Uncle Andie 36 Whisht! here comes a fit roun' the gale-en'.

2. Architecture. A vertical, usually triangular section of wall, which abuts the pitched surfaces of a roof or part of a roof; = gable n.¹ 1a.In quot. 1633: a similar triangular surface above a window; cf. gable n.¹ 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gable

gable1371

gable fork1371

piniona1400

gable end1596

festier1601

eagle1682

pignon1875

step-gable1921

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gable > over a window

gable end1596

1596 J. Blagrave Astrolabium Vranicum xiv. sig. C2^v I my selfe alwayes kept a standing marke ready set in such sort, that some tree, chimney top, or gable end, should be directly South from the same.

1633 Contract 9 Feb. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. ii. 697 The Gable-ends ouer the Windowes in y^e Roofe to be of Bricke.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 170 The Angle a Gable-end is set to, is called the Pitch of the Gable-end.

1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 37 Part of the Copeing of the Splay of the Gabel-end it self was broken down.

1737 E. Hoppus Gentleman's & Builder's Repository 86 Sides and Ends of the said Roof, one End top be hipped, the other a Gable-end.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §209 Summer stones (stones placed..on the lower angle of gable ends,..as an abutment of the barge stones).

1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 63/1 In front stood the old house, with its carved gable-ends and burnished weather-cocks.

1914 Rep. Cases Supreme Court Calif. 167 14 Gronlund..took the measurements for the north gable end of the roof and gave Pollard orders to help him cut the corrugated iron and put it in place.

1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iv. xi. 170 Two arched or slanting timbers, called crucks..form each of the gable-ends, and support the roof-tree.

2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 July f4 You should..have a good natural ventilation system in the attic, usually consisting of vents in the soffits (under the eaves), on the ridge of the roof, and in the gable ends.

3. figurative and in extended use: something likened to a gable end in being the extremity of a thing, or in forming a support or foundation for something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [noun] > that which or one who supports

crutchc900

upholda1066

uptakinga1300

arma1382

postc1387

staff1390

sustainerc1390

undersetterc1400

potent?a1439

buttressa1450

supportalc1450

comfort1455

supporta1456

studa1500

poge1525

underpropper1532

shore1534

staya1542

prop1562

stoopa1572

underprop1579

sustentation1585

rest1590

underpinning1590

supportance1597

sustinent1603

lean1610

reliance1613

hingea1616

columna1620

spar1630

gable end1788

lifeboat1832

standback1915

1788 J. Atkinson & G. Colman Tit for Tat ii. 21 The first ogle from the gable end of your bright eye made him a fine, jolly, amorous, full-grown Cupid.

1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV 35 Lord Monboddo believed..that men had once tails depending from the gable end of their bodies.

1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. 1 16 They have..satisfied themselves with narrow, contracted, and, as it were, gable end views of the monetary edifice.

2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Sept. 12 You must admit that the pop charts format has now become a gable end of our entertainment culture.

Derivatives

gable-ˈended adj. Architecture that has a gable end (senses 1, 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific shape > [adjective]

pinnacledc1400

toweredc1400

quartered1591

towery-topped1602

spired1610

towery1611

well-roofed1656

steepled1711

gable-ended1789

towerlessc1820

apteral1833

1789 Gentlemen's Mag. Jan. 21/2 It is..a respectable-looking, gable-ended house, in the form of an half H.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder ii. 129 Gable-ended roofs, unless properly supported by ties, are liable to thrust out the walls.

1958 Listener 6 Nov. 727/1 Eight-storey point-blocks are contrasted with low, gable-ended, four-storey blocks.

2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 June (Real Estate section) 9 Photographs show..a gable-ended tower flanked by two pinnacles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	gable end
释义	gable endn. Brit. /ˌɡeɪbl ˈɛnd/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪb(ə)l ˌɛnd/ Forms: see gable n.¹ and end n. Etymology: < gable n.¹ + end n. 1. Architecture. One of the end walls of a building, having a triangular section at the top which extends from the eaves to the ridge of the roof. Cf. gable n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > end wall > with triangular top gablec1390 gable endc1390 pike wall1440 pine-end1753 pinion-end1825 α. c1390 (?c1350) St. Bernard l. 299 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 46 In þe gable ende of þe churche Ben þreo wyndouwus. 1427 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) I. 163 The West gabilende of the halle. 1508–9 in D. Dymond Reg. Thetford Priory (1995) I. 252 Pro reparac' fact' apud ofton for the gabyllende of the chauncell. 1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams ix. sig. Av Gable endes, chambers, parlers. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. D3 I prefer that kind of Tire now;..I affect not these high Gable ends, these Tuscan tops, nor your Coronets, nor your Arches, nor your Pyramid's. 1708 S. Molyneux in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 38 I found all was done on or near the Gabel-end of the House. 1761 Lloyd's Evening Post 4 May Some workmen digging in a vault.., unhappily dug too near the foundation of the house, by which means one half of the gable end of it fell. 1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 115 The numerous gable-ends and bayed windows. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. viii. 296 Now only some one gable-end with its lofty lancets shows the noble scale of the ancient church. 1914 N. Munro New Road ii. 17 Narrow, broken lanes with all the gable-ends of the abutting buildings frontaging the thoroughfare. 1984 B. MacLaverty Cal (new ed.) 45 Cal began stacking the wood against the gable-end, throwing aside the larger chunks. 2007 G. Hayward Small Buildings, Small Gardens 14/1 The arbor..provides the otherwise flat gable end with dimension, depth and detail. β. 1464 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 374 A lode cley to dawbe þe gavulende with.1597 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 344 Aboute one yearde above the floore, on the south gavell end.1766 Aberdeen Jrnl. 28 July The gavel end of a house in the Gallowgate, adjoining to which a house was building, gave way and fell down.?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 12 Up the gavel end thick spreading, Crap the clasping Ivy green.1873 J. Hamilton Poems & Ballads 64 Ae nicht, when stan'in at the door, I saw him comin' roun' The gavel-en'.1896 J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy ii. I cannot picture the place without seeing her, as a little girl, come to the door of a certain house and beat her bass against the gav'le-end.1931 D. Campbell Uncle Andie 36 Whisht! here comes a fit roun' the gale-en'. 2. Architecture. A vertical, usually triangular section of wall, which abuts the pitched surfaces of a roof or part of a roof; = gable n.¹ 1a.In quot. 1633: a similar triangular surface above a window; cf. gable n.¹ 1b. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gable gable1371 gable fork1371 piniona1400 gable end1596 festier1601 eagle1682 pignon1875 step-gable1921 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gable > over a window gable end1596 1596 J. Blagrave Astrolabium Vranicum xiv. sig. C2^v I my selfe alwayes kept a standing marke ready set in such sort, that some tree, chimney top, or gable end, should be directly South from the same. 1633 Contract 9 Feb. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. ii. 697 The Gable-ends ouer the Windowes in y^e Roofe to be of Bricke. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 170 The Angle a Gable-end is set to, is called the Pitch of the Gable-end. 1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 37 Part of the Copeing of the Splay of the Gabel-end it self was broken down. 1737 E. Hoppus Gentleman's & Builder's Repository 86 Sides and Ends of the said Roof, one End top be hipped, the other a Gable-end. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §209 Summer stones (stones placed..on the lower angle of gable ends,..as an abutment of the barge stones). 1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 63/1 In front stood the old house, with its carved gable-ends and burnished weather-cocks. 1914 Rep. Cases Supreme Court Calif. 167 14 Gronlund..took the measurements for the north gable end of the roof and gave Pollard orders to help him cut the corrugated iron and put it in place. 1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iv. xi. 170 Two arched or slanting timbers, called crucks..form each of the gable-ends, and support the roof-tree. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 July f4 You should..have a good natural ventilation system in the attic, usually consisting of vents in the soffits (under the eaves), on the ridge of the roof, and in the gable ends. 3. figurative and in extended use: something likened to a gable end in being the extremity of a thing, or in forming a support or foundation for something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [noun] > that which or one who supports crutchc900 upholda1066 uptakinga1300 arma1382 postc1387 staff1390 sustainerc1390 undersetterc1400 potent?a1439 buttressa1450 supportalc1450 comfort1455 supporta1456 studa1500 poge1525 underpropper1532 shore1534 staya1542 prop1562 stoopa1572 underprop1579 sustentation1585 rest1590 underpinning1590 supportance1597 sustinent1603 lean1610 reliance1613 hingea1616 columna1620 spar1630 gable end1788 lifeboat1832 standback1915 1788 J. Atkinson & G. Colman Tit for Tat ii. 21 The first ogle from the gable end of your bright eye made him a fine, jolly, amorous, full-grown Cupid. 1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV 35 Lord Monboddo believed..that men had once tails depending from the gable end of their bodies. 1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. 1 16 They have..satisfied themselves with narrow, contracted, and, as it were, gable end views of the monetary edifice. 2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Sept. 12 You must admit that the pop charts format has now become a gable end of our entertainment culture. Derivatives gable-ˈended adj. Architecture that has a gable end (senses 1, 2). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific shape > [adjective] pinnacledc1400 toweredc1400 quartered1591 towery-topped1602 spired1610 towery1611 well-roofed1656 steepled1711 gable-ended1789 towerlessc1820 apteral1833 1789 Gentlemen's Mag. Jan. 21/2 It is..a respectable-looking, gable-ended house, in the form of an half H. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder ii. 129 Gable-ended roofs, unless properly supported by ties, are liable to thrust out the walls. 1958 Listener 6 Nov. 727/1 Eight-storey point-blocks are contrasted with low, gable-ended, four-storey blocks. 2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 June (Real Estate section) 9 Photographs show..a gable-ended tower flanked by two pinnacles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1390
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