False bearing, any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing.
There is no triforium, its position being taken throughout the church by corbel tables in the form of human and animal faces.
The English type of capital, with round abacus and vigorous foliation, reminds one of the cathedrals of Salisbury and Lincoln; and the tympanum with its sadly-mutilated figures is carried on a corbel table of great beauty.
Beneath the parapet, instead of a corbel table, there is a deep hollow, with running leaves, and small ball flowers at intervals.
The southern doorway is quite denuded, and even its buttresses rise without as much as a corbel to soften their lines.
They are crowned by a corbel table and a high, embattled parapet, that yielded protection to the soldiers occupying the platform immediately behind, which communicated with the passage around the city walls.
A favourite place for humourous figures was on the stone brackets or corbels which bear up timber roofs; examples are in the ape corbel in this article, and the responsible yet happy-looking saint at the end of the list of Contents.
Norman work has frequently some very grotesque heads in corbel tables and tower corners, to the odd appearance of which the decay by weather has no doubt much contributed.
Above this cap the corbel consists of a seated figure, naked, with distorted mouth and an agonised expression.
This shaft is corbelled off, and the corbel through carved in the shape of a lizard eating the leaves of a plant with berries thereon; it is a charming study.
The red tongues of fire rushed up and flickered from corbel to corbel and from tablet to tablet, and crept along the floor, setting in a blaze the seats and benches.
In Conrad's choir it was placed upon the vault of the south transept; afterwards it was set up upon a largecorbel of stone, over the arch of St. Michael in the same transept.
Take a good strong plank, two inches thick, and cut two pieces about six feet long, and shaped as shown by The Corbel Piece D in Fig.
Shave off the ends of the struts, as shown in the diagram, to fit the notches cut in the corbel pieces and the king-posts.
In medieval work the gutter rested partly on the top of the wall and partly on corbel tables, and the water was discharged through gargoyles.
Sometimes, however, a parapet or pierced balustrade was carried on the corbel table enclosing the gutter.
The head on the large corbel over the Dean's stall certainly wears a Tudor crown, and is bearded.
The woman's head on the corbel opposite, also wearing a Tudor crown, would probably be the last of his wives, Katherine Parr.
On the east side of these doorways there are corbel heads under the arches, and the walls of the platform are panelled.
Above the stage was a bold corbel table, and this is the upper limit of the Norman work.
As a rule the corbel table carries the gutter, but in Lombard work the arcaded corbel table was utilized as a decoration to subdivide the storeys and break up the wall surface.
A "corbel table" is a projecting moulded string course supported by a range of corbels.
I was presently there, for albeit the corbel was of some size, the weight thereof was indeed as nothing.
But," said the old janitor, making that reverence to his superiors which he was bounden to do, "may I ask what it is that the corbel holds?
Now he took up the corbel with as much gentleness as a lady's nurse, and we began to go on our way, the dear child still piping and bewailing.
I took up the corbel gently under my left arm, and began to stride with it to the abbat, down at the Kennet banks.
Say what thou hast to say," cried our sacrist; "my lord abbat would know who left this corbel at the gate, and why thou didst take it in?
To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.
The internal part of the vesica panel is occupied with the white marble bust, life size, placed on an enriched corbel of alabaster, on which corbel are inclined pillars which support a trefoiled and gabled canopy overhanging the bust.
Note the two ancientcorbel heads built into its W.
Notice under the short spire a quaint corbel table.
Notice the piscina with triangular arch, and a tomb, it is supposed, of Richard Bury, dating from the time of Henry VII; also the curious corbel face in the east aisle of the vaulted north transept.
An ancient image of our Lady had been removed, but the corbel remained, and the outline of the figure itself was traceable on the wall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corbel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beam; bracket; frieze; hob; ledge; rafter; retable; shelf; shoulder; topping
