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n. The hock of a horse or other animal.

n. A frame used by butchers for hanging carcasses by the legs.

n. A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.

n. A gambrel roof.

v. To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

n. The hind leg of a horse.

n. A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

v. To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

n. The hock of a horse or other animal.

n. A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg, used by butchers for suspending a carcass while dressing it.

n. A gambrel-roof.

To hang up by means of a gambrel thrust through the legs.

To form with a curb or crook: as, a gambreled roof.

n. a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper

"The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof."

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