Usually means: Carved stone, waterspout, grotesque figure.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gargoyle: Merriam-Webster
  2. gargoyle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gargoyle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gargoyle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gargoyle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gargoyle, gargoyle: Wordnik
  7. gargoyle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gargoyle: Wiktionary
  9. gargoyle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gargoyle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gargoyle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gargoyle: Dictionary.com
  13. gargoyle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gargoyle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gargoyle (Isaac Christians), Gargoyle (Yuri Topolov), Gargoyle (album), Gargoyle (band), Gargoyle (comics), Gargoyle (disambiguation), Gargoyle (module), Gargoyle (monster), Gargoyle (router firmware), Gargoyle, The Gargoyle (newspaper), The Gargoyle (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gargoyle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gargoyle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gargoyle: Rhymezone
  19. Gargoyle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gargoyle: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gargoyle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Gargoyle: The Word Detective
  23. gargoyle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gargoyle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gargoyle: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. GARGOYLE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gargoyle: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. gargoyle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gargoyle (n.): Cats
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. gargoyle: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gargoyle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gargoyle (Gay Human Form): Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See gargoyled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
noun:  Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
noun:  A fictional winged monster.
noun:  (derogatory) An ugly woman.

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