What is another word for gable?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈe͡ɪbə͡l] (IPA)

Gable refers to the triangular portion of a wall between the sloping roofs of a building, typically above the horizontal eave line. Some synonyms for the word gable include triangular, apex, peak, and pitch. These terms can be used interchangeably to describe the shape and structure of a gable. Other synonyms for gable include pediment, tympanum, and truncation. These words are often used to describe specific architectural features of a gable, such as the decorative elements at the top or bottom of the triangle. Regardless of the terminology used, gables serve an important function in both aesthetics and function for buildings of all types and sizes.

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Usage examples for Gable

In the gable we placed furs and instruments.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The train stopped with a jerk at some collection of little wooden houses whose gable roofs were squared off by false fronts.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
When Davy seated himself by the side of his friend, he found that the low gable would protect them from the rain, should it come on, and that from where they sat they commanded a view of Dorris's window; the one above the porch where they had once seen the shadow appear, and in which a light now appeared.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe

Famous quotes with Gable

  • Leopards on the gable-ends, Leopards everywhere.
    Vita Sackville-West
  • This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile. That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.
    Mark Twain
  • He called out for the others, but they were nowhere near. He tried to run, without knowing which way to go, but his legs were sluggish and the earth stood on end; in the next instant he found himself lying horizontal, his cheek in the dirt, without having felt himself fall. Then the earth tilted away from him again. He tried to walk steadily, but the earth continued to surge. Finally he sat down beneath a house-gable, leaned his back against the wall, and waited until the earth settled back in its place. He drooped his head and mumbled about his forefathers . . . In the end all he could do was start to sing the sad passion-hymns and death-prayers his mother had taught him in his youth.
    Halldór Laxness
  • When someone from Skagafjörður was settled comfortably against our gable-wall and was launched on to the Úlfar- set to a Skagafjörður chant, with that obligatory opening about King Cyrus, there opened up before us a whole wide world of heroic poetry all the way to the Orient, fitfully lit by strange flashes of illumination.
    Halldór Laxness

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