gable

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the usually triangular upper part of an exterior wall between the sloping sides of a roof

   The farmhouse presented its blank gable end to the road.

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From Middle English gable, probably through Old French from Old Norse gafl ("gable end"). Cognates survive in several Scandinavian languages. The term names the end wall enclosed by the two slopes of a pitched roof, not the whole roof itself.

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