Sekirov Dictionary

gambrel

/ˈɡæmbɹəl/

noun 4
verb 1
forms 5

noun4

The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
A gambrel roof.
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A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
- Within two hours the hog - killed, scalded, and scraped of its hair - was hanging pale from a big tree limb by a gambrel stick run through the tendons of its hind feet — 1997
A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.

verb1

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To truss or hang up using a gambrel.
- They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek. — 1979

forms

gambreled · gambrelled · gambreling · gambrelling · gambrels

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