Gambrel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
2. isim A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.

   “Within two hours the hog - killed, scalded, and scraped of its hair - was hanging pale from a big tree limb by a gambrel stick run through the tendons of its hind feet”

3. isim A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
4. isim A gambrel roof.
5. fiil To truss or hang up using a gambrel.

   “They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.”

6. özel isim A surname.