corbel

cor·bel (kôr′bəl, -bel′)

noun

a piece of stone, wood, or metal, often in the form of a bracket, projecting from the side of a wall and serving to support a cornice, the spring of an arch, etc.
a short timber placed lengthwise under a beam or girder

Etymology: OFr, dim. of corb < L corvus, raven: so called from its beaked shape

transitive verb -·beled or -·belled, -·bel·ing or -·bel·ling

to provide or support with a corbel or corbels

Object

roof: A long, low passage leads into a magnificently lofty chamber which still has its original corbelled roof largely intact.
head: Entry to the building is by the south porch, the dripstones of the outer arch being completed with corbelled heads.
brickwork: It is not enough to corbel the brickwork below the remaining chimney stack.

Converse of object

carve: Many stones reused from the Abbey were found including a carved stone corbel in the shape of human head.
decorate: East wall: dominated by a two-centred wooden arch on heavy decorated corbels, inserted in restoration of 1873.
mold: The fireplace at the southeast end is supported on a heavy molded stone corbel which shows in the passage beneath.
set: There is no west window, but here is set an amusing corbel carved with a face, high above the blocked west doorway.
project: On the outer side of this wall is a projecting corbel.
have: And the ledge has a corbel depicting the head of a green man; yet there is no bowl.

Adjective modifier

wooden: Chancel arch truss distinguished by its angular wooden corbels; the roof between the trusses paneled over in wood.
large: Lower than the present roof corbels are large corbels, disused, from the the 14thC roof.
decorative: Although from a small area, the architectural fragments include columns and their capitals, decorative corbels, lintels and finely carved architraves.

Preposition: on

wall: Roof has twelve bays of sloping wooden panels, resting on 19thC stone corbels on the north wall.
side: The open faced corbels on either side taper to half moon shaped ledges on smaller brackets.

Modifies a noun

table: The highest string course has beneath it a row of grotesque heads, rather like a corbel table.
head: There is a most strange reset corbel head nearby, that seems to show a black boy.

Noun used with modifier

stone: Roof has twelve bays of sloping wooden panels, resting on 19thC stone corbels on the north wall.
head: Big sadly worn head corbels support the outer entrance to the porch.
roof: Lower than the present roof corbels are large corbels, disused, from the the 14thC roof.
century: The motif of an angel holding an open book is the same as that of a 14th century corbel in the north aisle.

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