单词 | jerkin head |
释义 | jerkin headnoun Architecture The end of a roof that is hipped for only part of its height, leaving a truncated gable: jerkin-head gable...
OriginMid 19th century: perhaps from an alteration of jerking (from the jerk1 (verb)) + head; compare also with earlier kirkin-head (apparently arbitrarily formed from kirk) in the same sense. |
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