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 Melville, Herman
Next they threw out a short gable-ended wing to the east, and another to the west, enclosing a pleasant courtyard on the south.
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
They are peaked and gable-ended to an extraordinary degree, so that the general aspect of the city is confused and irregular—all the more interesting and picturesque on this account.
From Chasing the Sun by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Thus old, and antiquated, and gable-ended, was the tabernacle of Oh- Oh's soul.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
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 Thackeray, William Makepeace
