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Definition of Gambrel roof
1. Noun. A gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper.
Definition of Gambrel roof
1. Noun. A roof design having two slopes on the sides and gables in the ends. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gambrel Roof
Literary usage of Gambrel roof
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Farm Buildings by William Arthur Foster, Deane G. Carter (1922)
"The gambrel roof has already been discussed. This type of roof has two slopes in
each side of the roof for which the rafters and braces must be cut. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A gambrel-roof. A gambler's acquaintance is readily made and easily kept ....
gambrel-roof (gam'brel-röf), n. A roof the slope of which is broken by an ..."
3. The Colonial Architecture of Salem by Frank Cousins, Phil Madison Riley (1919)
"During these years the gambrel-roof house was the prevailing style, ... The gambrel
roof represents an evolution of the seventeenth-century Mansard roof, ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1824 In a gambrel-roof'd house, by the side of the road, Gambrel-roof. See quot.
1858. A gambrel is a crooked piece of wood, on which butchers hang up the ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"(Born in a house with a gambrel-roof, Born there ? Don't aay so! ... the old
gambrel roof. Ah! many's the day since there I have been, And bitter the tears ..."
6. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"Of course, when we say we have not been able to find the source of the gambrel-roof
in England, we do not mean that no examples of the type are to be found ..."
7. History of Concord, New Hampshire: From the Original Grant in Seventeen by James Otis Lyford, Amos Hadley, Will B. Howe (1896)
"... 1731, it appears that no less than eighty- five dwelling-houses were at that
time wholly or partially finished, 'rrc^. • The gambrel roof House. ..."
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