What's Does Gable Mean?

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesthetic concerns.

How Do You Use gable in a sentence?

Gable sentence example
  1. On this side of Gable is the fine detached rock, Napes Needle. ...
  2. Its style was mainly Early English, the western gable Norman. ...
  3. The roof was thatched, and perhaps had a gable at each end with a hole to allow the smoke of the wood fire to escape.

What do you mean by gable roof?

noun. a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.

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