| 单词 | gable-wise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈgable-wise ˈgable-wise adv. in the manner of a gable (sense 1a), esp. forming a triangular shape similar to a gable. ΚΠ 1600 C. Edmondes Obseruations Fiue Bks. Caesars Comm. iv. vi. 142 These [trees] he let downe into the water..and droue them in with commanders, not perpendicularly, after the fashion of a pile, but gable wise and bending with the course of the water. 1617 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Cambr. (1886) I. 204 Ye west end..to be made gable wise. 1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xxi. 12 A branch or two of larch, set gable-wise across them. 1912 Youth's Compan. 25 Jan. 49/2 Make six or eight arches of the twigs, making each arch of two uprights, and two twigs above them slanting gablewise. 1996 Archaeol. Rep. for 1995–6 (Soc. for Promotion Hellenic Stud.) No. 42. 84/2 Many graves are a cappuccina with tiles propped up gable-wise. < as lemmas |
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