From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gambrel \Gam"brel\ verb (used with an object) To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel. --Beau. & Fl.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gambrel \Gam"brel\, noun [OF. gambe, jambe leg, F. jambe. Cf. {Cambrel}, {Chambrel}, and see {Gambol}. n.]
2. A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
{Gambrel roof} (Arch.), a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper [syn: {gambrel roof}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "gambrel": ankle, bayonet legs, bowlegs, calf, cnemis, drumstick, foreleg, gamb, gigot, ham, hind leg, hock, jamb, knee, leg, limb, podite, popliteal space, scissor-legs, shank, shin, stems, stumps, tarsus, trotters
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