GABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gable mean? 

• GABLE (noun)
  The noun GABLE has 2 senses:

1. the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof

2. United States film actor (1901-1960)

  Familiarity information: GABLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gable; gable end; gable wall

Hypernyms ("gable" is a kind of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gable"):

bell gable (an extension of a gable that serves as a bell cote)

corbie gable ((architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps)

pediment (a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States film actor (1901-1960)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Clark Gable; Gable; William Clark Gable

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

 Context examples 

It was my system which enabled me to find John Warner, late gardener of High Gable, sacked in a moment of temper by his imperious employer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have heard that in the north it is still the use to call a house which hath but the two gable ends left, without walls or roof, a Knolles' mitre.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From amid the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a very old mansion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The early sun was striking edgewise on its gables and lattice-windows, touching them with gold; and some beams of its old peace seemed to touch my heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

At last the violet rim of the German Ocean appeared over the green edge of the Norfolk coast, and the driver pointed with his whip to two old brick and timber gables which projected from a grove of trees.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is only within the last weeks that he has returned, after a year’s absence, to High Gable.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aylward rode for half a mile with his chin upon his shoulder, looking back at a white kerchief which fluttered out of the gable window of a high house which peeped over the corner of the battlements.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)