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Corbel   /kˈɔrbəl/   Listen
Corbel

noun
1.
(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent).  Synonym: truss.



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"Corbel" Quotes from Famous Books



... size—few of them, however, of more than two stories. Most of them looked as if they had a long and not very happy history. All at once he found himself in a street, partly of quaint gables with corbel steps; they called them here corbie-steps, in allusion, perhaps, to the raven sent out by Noah, for which lazy bird the children regarded these as places to rest. There were two or three curious gateways in it with some attempt at decoration, and one house with the ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald



Words linked to "Corbel" :   architecture, bracket, furnish, supply, render, provide, wall bracket



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