单词 | gambrelled |
释义 | gambrelledgambreledadj. 1. That has been hung or stretched out on a gambrel. ΚΠ a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu4v/1 Ile hox you..And carrie you gambril'd thither like a Mutton. 1882 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 10 Mar. 4/6 A farmer in the Neustead neighborhood..left some gambreled swine hanging on a pole out of doors. 1937 P. F. Newell & C. J. Goodell Pork Demonstr. (Mississippi State Coll. Extension Dept.) §5 (caption) Here the hoist end is being lowered to attach the gambreled carcass. 2000 C. O. Gill in HACCP in Meat Industry ii. v. 95 The gambrelled carcass is passed through some arrangement of gas flames to burn any residual hair on the skin. 2. Of a roof: with two sides, each of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Of a building: provided with a gambrel roof; gambrel-roofed. Cf. gambrel roof n.Recorded earliest in gambrelled-roofed adj. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > type of roof thatched1467 side?a1475 thacked1530 vaulted1552 shingleda1563 slated1611 unshingled1611 high-pitch1614 slate-pointed1648 killesed1649 hipped1663 pantiledc1672 overpitched1677 underpitched1677 low-pitcheda1684 pitched1773 theeked1792 peaked1797 shingle1810 thackless1810 choppered1818 wagon-headed1823 unlathed1854 break-back1856 shingly1857 saddleback1861 scaled1862 gambrelled1863 thatchy1864 weather-slated1870 thatchless1882 weather-tiled1887 monopitch1941 tile-roofed1962 1863 Dollar Monthly Mag. Dec. 487/2 A square, gambrelled-roofed house hiding under stately elms. 1882 M. Sidney Pettibone Name xv. 268 Doctor Pilcher drove on till the little gambreled roof of the widow Scarritt's cottage came into view. 1886 Amer. Architect & Building News 14 Aug. 74/2 Has the usual defect of gambrelled houses with short ridges, it looks lumpy. 1913 C. E. Hooper Reclaiming Old House iii. 43 The pitched-roof ell is permissible with a gambreled main house. 1986 S. King It iv. 886 Their gabled gambrelled cupola-ed houses stand on West Broadway to this day. 2004 G. Foster Amer. Houses i. 50 Roof may be gabled or gambreled. Compounds gambrelled-roofed adj. = gambrel-roofed adj. at gambrel roof n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1863Gambrelled-roofed [see sense 2]. 1951 Handweaver & Craftsman Fall 62/3 Braided rugs..from under gambreled roofed Dutch and Pennsylvania farms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1627 |
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