Usually means: Roof with two sloping sides.
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  1. gambrel: Merriam-Webster
  2. gambrel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gambrel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gambrel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gambrel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gambrel, gambrel: Wordnik
  7. Gambrel, gambrel: Wiktionary
  8. gambrel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gambrel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gambrel: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Gambrel, gambrel: Dictionary.com
  12. gambrel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Gambrel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gambrel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gambrel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gambrel: Rhymezone
  17. Gambrel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gambrel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. GAMBREL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. gambrel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gambrel: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. gambrel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gambrel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gambrel: Encyclopedia

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  1. gambrel: Medical dictionary

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  1. Gambrel: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gambrel)

noun:  The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
noun:  (chiefly historical and obsolete outside dialects) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
noun:  A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
noun:  (architecture) A gambrel roof.
verb:  To truss or hang up using a gambrel.
noun:  A surname.

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