gable
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French gable (compare modern French gâble).
Noun[edit]
gable (plural gables)
- (architecture) The triangular area of external wall adjacent to two meeting sloped roofs.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from gable
Translations[edit]
triangular area of wall
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
gable (plural gables)
- A cable.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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Verb[edit]
gable