Architecture. On a roof with two pitched surfaces: a vertical, usually triangular section of wall, extending from the eaves to the ridge of the…

a timber (or one of a pair) which supports a gable or a pitched roof; cf. fork, n. 7.

A gable. Formerly also: †a pinnacle (obsolete). Cf. pignon, n.2

Architecture. A vertical, usually triangular section of wall, which abuts the pitched surfaces of a roof or part of a roof; = gable, n.1 1a.

The gable end of a roof; = fastigium, n. 1.

Architecture. The pediment of a temple. Obsolete. rare.

A gable. Cf. pinion, n.1

= corbie-gable n. at corbie, n. compounds (cf. quot. 1833 at stepped, adj. 1).