corbel

cor·bel

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

Origin of corbel

OFr, diminutive of corb from Classical Latin 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

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corbel

noun

A piece of stone, wood, brick, or other building material, projecting from the face of a wall and generally used to support a cornice or arch.

transitive verb

cor·beled, cor·bel·ing, cor·bels, also cor·belled cor·bel·ling

To provide with or support by a corbel or corbels.

Origin of corbel

Middle English from Old French diminutive of corp raven (from the similarity of its shape to that of a raven's beak) from Latin corvus

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Noun

(plural corbels)

(architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present corbels, present participle corbelling, simple past and past participle corbelled)

To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

Origin

From Old French corbel, from Late Latin corvellum, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”).

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