gable end
noun
an end wall bearing a gable.
gable-ended
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a word derived from
gable end.
Example Sentences
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The Spouter-Inn Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
Old villages, farm-yards, groups of stacks, queer chimneys, churches, gable-ended cottages, Elizabethan mansion-houses, and other old English scenes, he depicts with evident enthusiasm.
From George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray
The villages are not large or numerous, but widely spread, consisting generally of conical grass huts, while others are gable-ended, after the coast-fashion—a small collection of ten or twenty comprising one village.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
High over this dais, but resting upon independent supports beyond, a gable-ended roof sloped away to within a short distance of the ground.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
Clumsy, gable-ended houses, streets narrow and crooked, a wretched pavement—such is the city.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
