A bent piece of wood or iron used by butchers to hang carcasses of animals on.

A bent piece of wood or iron used by butchers for hanging or stretching out carcasses. Cf. cambrel, n. 1.

A metal hook used by a butcher for hanging carcasses or large pieces of meat, now typically being S-shaped, and designed so that the top part may…

A hook to hang meat upon; a ‘pot-hook’.

= cambrel, n. 1.

a hook for hanging meat upon.

A raised floor, platform, scaffold. Canadian. An erection on which meat is kept out of the reach of animals, or on which meat is dried.

A hook on which to hang meat carcasses, etc.

A butcher's spike or knife; (also gen.) any sharp implement used for stabbing or piercing.

More fully gamble stick. = gambrel, n. 1.

Applied to various objects consisting of two or more supports and a cross-piece. (See quots.)

U.S. = gambrel, n. 1a. Also gammon rod, gammon stick.