gambrels

I'm hoping I'll be able to use the excuse, "Uh sorry hon, those deer carcasses hanging on gambrels in the garage won't butcher themselves now will they?"

Bill Heavey's Deer Diary: Come Hell or Home Improvement 2007

Above the jammed higgledy-piggledy of rotting half-timbered gambrels on Angel's Island she caught a glimpse of the towers of the St. Cyr fortress, where the Bishop of Angelshand presided over the Inquisition and its Witchfinders.

The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

The stable and kitchen courts were even to Joanna's untrained eye a jumble of styles and periods, mansard roofs crowding comfortably shoulder to shoulder with the oddly angled gambrels and projecting upper story's of the Palace's earlier incarnations.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

The moon was over Ajalon when these two hunters, after all the perils of the long, black road, marched up into the dooryard, bearing on a pole between them their quarry, well suspended by the gambrels.

The Singing Mouse Stories Emerson Hough 1890

The gambrels used in slaughtering times, hay-hooks, long-handled pothooks for brick ovens, could all be cut ready-shaped.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

We hurried back to where the one we had got lay, took out his entrails, climbed up a sapling, bent down the top and fastened the gambrels of the old buck to it; then sprinkled powder on his hair, so as to keep the ravens from picking him, let go the sapling and it straightened up with him so that he was out of the way of the dogs and wolves.

The Bark Covered House Nowlin, William, 1821-1884 1876

We hurried back to where the one we had got lay, took out his entrails, climbed up a sapling, bent down the top and fastened the gambrels of the old buck to it; then sprinkled powder on his hair, so as to keep the ravens from picking him, let go the sapling and it straightened up with him so that he was out of the way of the dogs and wolves.

The Bark Covered House William Nowlin 1852

Once the door was opened, in stepped Joe Farrell, a well-known East End builder, who had been buying land near the Houses at Sagaponac development for his signature Hamptons shingle homes, replete with gambrels and gables.

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