The gambrel was inserted under the hamstrings and attached to the top of the tripod.
Gambrel Whiffletree, for use in hoisting hay to prevent entanglements.
After the gambrel was inserted and attached the feet of the tripod were moved gradually closer together as the skinning proceeded, thus elevating the carcass to swing clear of the ground.
The house itself is very old, with little windows and a gambrel roof, and a well-sweep in the rear.
Presently they entered the broad street of an old town, where houses with gambrel roofs and quaint porches neighbored in quiet dignity with towered mansions and verandaed bungalows.
Our old settlers made steep gambrel roofs to shed the rain.
The third story was used for guests' rooms, the slope of the roof being eliminated by boarding the gambrel roof so as to make square chambers.
The building itself is a stern, dignified, two-story house with a gambrel roof.
Some of the Whateleys and Bishops still send their eldest sons to Harvard and Miskatonic, though those sons seldom return to the moldering gambrel roofs under which they and their ancestors were born.
The gambrel should be long enough to catch on each side when turned crosswise, thus relieving the windlass so that a second carcass may be hoisted.
This bar has sliding hooks made to receive the gambrel sticks, which have a hook permanently attached to each so that the carcass is quickly removed from the swivel lever to the slide hook on the bar.
The windpipe is then slit open, and the whole together is hung upon the gambrel beside the hog or placed temporarily into a tub of water.
Later came the more pretentious hall, typical of the gambrel roof house, that enjoyed so long a period of popularity.
That portion of a wall which extends into the angle formed by a gable or gambrel roof.
The roof is what is known as =The Gambrel or Octagonal Roof=, and consists of two eight and two nine inch boards thirty-four inches long.
Whenever you see a house with a gambrel roof, you may be almost positive that the house is at least a hundred years old, for the gambrel roof went out of fashion after the Revolution.
The Stavers inn has the regulation gambrel roof, but is lacking in those wood ornaments which are usually seen over the doors and windows of the more prominent houses of that epoch.
The Warner House, a three-story building with gambrel roof and luthern windows, is as fine and substantial an exponent of the architecture of the period as you are likely to meet with anywhere in New England.
A roof having a double slope, or composed on each side of two parts which have unequal inclinations; a gambrel roof.
In one of these old houses we find an attempt to modify the gambrel into the hipped roof, a type which became highly developed in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
The house is two and a half stories high with additions which have somewhat altered its original appearance; it has a gambrel roof, hipped at one end after the Mansard manner with excellent dormers on both the front and end just mentioned.
It is a great, square, wooden structure of two stories, with added attic rooms beneath an overwhelming gambrel roof, which is the conspicuous feature of the edifice and contributes to its antique form.
A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.
Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like.
All Old Cambridge people know the Brattle House, with its gambrel roof, its tall trees, its perennial spring, its legendary fame of good fare and hospitable board in the days of the kindly old bon vivant, Major Brattle.
The gambrel roof appeared before the eighteenth century and was commonly used in New England farmhouses.
It was not until 1700 that the gambrel roof came into style.
The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof.
The gambrel roof had a certain grace of outline, especially when joined with lean-tos and other additions.
It was two storied with a high gambrel roof making in effect a third story.
Through the gambrel peaks rose two great chimneys, and I wondered what two chimneys could be for.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gambrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ankle; calf; drumstick; gambrel; ham; hock; jamb; knee; leg; limb; pin; shank; shin; stem; stumps; thigh; trotter
