gablet

English

Etymology

From gable +‎ -let or gable +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪb.lət/

Noun

gablet (plural gablets)

1. (architecture) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
   • 1865, John Cassell, Cassell's Illustrated History of England, volume I, chapter 68:

     The Pinnacles are numerous, and very fine. They are in general square, and not on diagonally; the sides are frequently panelled, and terminate in crocketed canopies, or gablets, from which rises the spire, which is also crocketed at the angles, and terminates in a finial.

   • 1914, Francis B. Andrews, “The Old Houses of Tewkesbury”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the Birmingham Archaeological Society, volume 40, page 24:

     Almost opposite Clarence House, and immediately adjoining the Swan Hotel, is a lofty and somewhat narrow structure of four storeys, whose twin gablets overhang and overbend the street in quite a serious manner.

Derived terms

• gablet roof

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gablet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• baglet

German

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Verb

gablet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of gabeln