gable

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ga·ble /ˈɡeɪbəl/ noun [countable]  DHHTBBthe upper end of a house wall where it joins with a sloping roof and makes a shape like a triangle 山墙，三角墙 the gable end of the barn 谷仓有山墙的一端 →4  See picture of 见图 ROOF →5 see picture at 见图 roof1

Examples from the Corpus

gable• Ridge, hip and gable tiles are commonly displaced by gales, causing accumulation of debris in gutters, valleys and junctions.• Timber fascias and barge-boards are standard, while many pitched roof garages feature timber-clad gable ends.• In the high front gable a plaque says 1857.• Then voices would cry in the falling sigh of wind around its gables.• Attractive stone built houses in the centre of the town have decorated timber surfaces under the gables and half-hipped roofs.• The gable wall structure consists of a series of fabricated steel mullions at 3.6m centres.• Many of the houses were eighteenth century or earlier with steeply sloping red-tiled roofs and half-timbered gables painted white or pale green.Origin gable (1300-1400) Old French Old Norse gafl

ga·ble nounChineseSyllable  

of house the where upper Corpus wall a end

gable
ga‧ble /ˈɡeɪbəl/ noun [countable]the upper end of a house wall where it joins with a sloping roof and makes a shape like a triangle:
    the gable end of the barn

Gable
Gable, Clark
(1901–60) a US film actor who appeared in many films especially in the 1930s and 1940s, and was known for being sexually attractive. He is most famous for appearing as the character Rhett butler in Gone with the Wind (1939), and his other films include It Happened One Night (1934) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

gableBrE /ˈɡeɪbl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɡeɪbl/ 🔊 noun

the upper part of the end wall of a building, between the two sloping sides of the roof, that is shaped like a triangle 三角墙；山墙