01 n. The hind leg of a horse.
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1.
The hind leg of a horse.
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2.
A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Phrases & compounds
Gambrel roof —
a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.