different between gambrel vs cambrel

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).

Noun

gambrel (plural gambrels)

1. The hind leg of a horse.
2. (chiefly historical and obsolete outside dialects) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
3. (US, architecture) A gambrel roof.

Derived terms

• gambrel roof
• gambrel-roofed

Translations

Verb

gambrel (third-person singular simple present gambrels, present participle gambrelling or gambreling, simple past and past participle gambrelled or gambreled)

1. To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.9:

     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

Anagrams

• gambler

English

Noun

cambrel (plural cambrels)

1. Obsolete form of gambrel.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

Anagrams

• clamber, cramble