| 单词 | gable wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgable wall gable wall n. a wall of a house or other building which is topped by a gable (sense 1a); cf. sense 2. ΚΠ 1392 Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Acts vi. f. 51v Murus vocatus le Gable Wale existens in medio ecclesiae. 1442 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1901) 7 116 John Walschef v dayys to take a down ye gabul wall. 1545 MS Rec. Aberdeen in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1825) Suppl. at Bowaland He bowaland the said gavill wall on bayth the sidis. 1649 in A. Maxwell Hist. Old Dundee (1884) 422 [He ought] not to mak holls for putting of geasts in the gavel wall. 1785 W. Harrod & F. Peck Antiq. Stamford & St. Martin's II. vii. 451 A fire broke out..and had not a strong gable wall stopped it westward the whole inn probably had been destroyed. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 162 The space between the screen and the gable wall of the Hall. 1996 S. Deane Reading in Dark (1997) ii. 39 I left to play handball at the gable wall of the house at the end of the street. < as lemmas |
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