GABLE END

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gable end mean? 

• GABLE END (noun)
  The noun GABLE END has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GABLE END used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GABLE END (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 end" 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 end"):

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)

 Context examples 

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)