Skip to main content Skip to Search Box
Listen
Email

Topic Pages contain an overview, definitions, biographies, related topics, images, plus links to relevant articles and other content provided by your library. Topic Page: Gables

Definition: gable from The Macquarie Dictionary
1.

the triangular wall enclosed by the two slopes of a roof and a horizontal line across the eaves.

Plural: gables

2.

any architectural feature shaped like a gable.

Plural: gables

3.

verb (t)

/'ge1b7l/ /'gaybuhl/

gabled, gabling

to build with a gable or gables; form as a gable.

gables, gabling, gabled

Etymology: Middle English, probably from Old Norse gafl fork

gabled adjective

Gable
Image from: gable in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary
Summary Article: gable
from The Chambers Dictionary

(also (Scot) gā'vel) the triangular part of an exterior wall of a building between the top of the side-walls and the slopes on the roof; a gable-shaped structure over a window or door. [The northern form gavel is prob ON gafl; Swed gafvel, Dan gavl; the southern form gable is prob through OFr gable, from ON gafl ]

■ gā'bled
adj.

■ gā'blet
n

(dimin) a small gable over a niche, buttress, tabernacle, etc.

❑ gable end
n

the end wall of a building on the side where there is a gable.

❑ gable window
n

a window in a gable end; a window with its upper part shaped like a gable.

"gable." In The Chambers Dictionary, by C.M. Schwarz. 13th ed. Chambers Harrap, 2015. https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/gables
Gable. (2015). In C. Schwarz, The Chambers Dictionary. (13th ed.). [Online]. London: Chambers Harrap. Available from: https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/gables [Accessed 25 September 2018].
"gable." The Chambers Dictionary, C.M. Schwarz, Chambers Harrap, 13th edition, 2015. Credo Reference, https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/gables. Accessed 25 Sep. 2018.
© 2015 by Chambers Publishing Ltd.

Related Articles

Full text Article gable
Collins English Dictionary

n 1 the triangular upper part of a wall between the sloping ends of a pitched roof 2 a triangular ornamental feature in the form of a gable, esp a

Full text Article gable
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

pronunciation (14c) 1 a : the vertical triangular end of a building from cornice or eaves to ridge b : the similar end of a gambrel roof c : the e

Full text Article gable
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

1. The upper, triangular portion of an end wall. 2. The end of a double-sloping roof with the triangular piece of wall that it...

See more from Credo