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Definition of Cambrel
1. n. See Gambrel,
Definition of Cambrel
1. the hock of a horse [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cambrel
Literary usage of Cambrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"320). cambrel, a crooked stick with notches on it, on which butchers hang their meat
... 20; ' Chapelot du jarret, the cambrel hogh of a horse', Cot- grave. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"CambreL A ship's deck is said to lie cambering when it does not lie level, ...
E. camber-nosed, having an aquiline nose.—Jam. cambrel, cam- bren ..."
3. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"Var. pron. of ' gambol.' Leic., and elsewhere. cambrel, >*6. ' A crooked piece
of wood used by butchers for hanging up and expanding a slaughtered animal. ..."
4. Two Collections of Derbicisms Containing Words and Phrases in a Great by Samuel Pegge, Thomas Hallam (1896)
"sb. a crooked stick used by the butchers to extend the legs of a calf, [pig], or
sheep : 'tis so called from the part it is employ'd about, for the cambrel ..."
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