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
But these kind of places have not much character in them: an old Squire’s gable-ended house is much more English and aristocratic to my mind.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
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
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 whale by Herman Melville
Lea Hurst, a gable-ended house, standing among its own woods and commanding wonderful views of the Peak country, is about two miles from Cromford station.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
