corbel
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
Definition of corbel
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
“The booking hall is lofty and of peculiar design, the roof being carried on timbered beams set in pairs rising from carved corbels.”
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noun
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A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
“The booking hall is lofty and of peculiar design, the roof being carried on timbered beams set in pairs rising from carved corbels.”
verb
- (transitive)To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
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Etymology
From Middle English corbel, from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”), named for the shape's resemblance to a crow's beak. Doublet of corbeau.
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