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ˈcrow-step Arch.
(In Sc. craw-.)
= corbie-step (see corbie 3).
1822Scott Redgauntlet ch. xx, Reckoning from the crawstep to the groundsill. 1884A. Lang in Century Mag. Jan. 331/1 The houses have the old ‘crow-step’ on the gable.
attrib.1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. 12 The crow-step gables were of the primitive architecture of the province.
Hence ˈcrow-stepped ppl. a.
1853Turner Dom. Archit. III. ii. vii. 300 Several of the gables are crow-stepped. |