Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An overlapping arrangement of bricks or stones in which each course extends farther out from the vertical of the wall than the course below.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In building, an overlapping arrangement of stones, bricks, etc., each course projecting beyond the one below it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.
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Examples
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The tomb of Balban is the first structure in India built with true arches instead of Hindu corbeling.
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Such separation may be obtained by corbeling the wall, or staggering the beams, or the beams may be supported by steel wall hangers, but no wall shall be corbeled more than two (2) inches for this purpose.
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For instance, who would think that right here in New York there were people who specialized in corbeling?
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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Or when they are not corbeling they may be toothing.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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Rain or shine, hot or cold, you will find them corbeling around like Trojans.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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The second year included rowlock and bonded segmental arches; blocking, toothing, and corbeling; building and bonding of vaulted walls; polygonal and circular walls, piers and chimneys; fire-places and flues.
One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America William Carleton 1910
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After seeing what is left of the girdle of the Virgin, which the verger thought it very important that we should see, we spent what time we had left in gazing up at the interesting corbeling of the nave and the two hollow, stone pyramids that form its roof.
In Château Land Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 1886
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The parapets of the flat roofs have red tile trim, decorated cornices and dentils or arched corbeling.
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The parapets of the flat roofs have red tile trim, decorated cornices and dentils or arched corbeling.
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Like many New York armories, it looks like a medieval fortress with towers and turrets and Romanesque corbeling.
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