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Corbel   Listen
noun
Corbel  n.  (Arch.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. Note: A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.





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... the tower bears a plain corbel, supporting what is supposed to be the remains of an oak case for ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury - with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire • H. J. L. J. Masse


Words linked to "Corbel" :   bracket, architecture, provide, corbel arch, truss


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