Meaning of gambrel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
2. A surname.
3. A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
   dialectal, historical, obsolete
4. A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
5. A gambrel roof.

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Examples

“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”

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