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CORBEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corbel mean?
• CORBEL (noun)
The noun CORBEL has 1 sense:
1. (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
Familiarity information: CORBEL used as a noun is very rare.
• CORBEL (verb)
The verb CORBEL has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: CORBEL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
corbel; truss
Hypernyms ("corbel" is a kind of...):
bracket; wall bracket (a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf))
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Derivation:
corbel (furnish with a corbel)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: corbeled / corbelled
Past participle: corbeled / corbelled
-ing form: corbeling / corbelling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnish with a corbel
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "corbel" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
corbel ((architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent))
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