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gambrel
/ˈɡæmbɹəl/
noun 4verb 1name 1
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1PREP.
through
Definitions
noun
1
The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
2
A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
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
3
A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
4
A gambrel roof.
verb
1
To truss or hang up using a gambrel.
They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.
And meet me; or I'll box you while I have you, And carry you gambril'd thither like a mutton
name
1
A surname.
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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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They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.
Wiktionary03
And meet me; or I'll box you while I have you, And carry you gambril'd thither like a mutton
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