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語源

From 中期英語 corbel, from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”), named for the shape's resemblance to a crow's beak. Doublet of corbeau.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɔːbəl/

名詞

corbel (plural corbels)

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

   Synonym: corb

   Coordinate terms: console, modillion

   • 1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:

     The booking hall is lofty and of peculiar design, the roof being carried on timbered beams set in pairs rising from carved corbels.

   • 2021 July 2, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alta Spells, Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, “Firm held off on repairs because of stability issues in months before Surfside building collapse”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 22 November 2021:

     But the firm noted concrete deterioration deep within the pool’s wall and corbel, a type of support structure, requiring “aggressive excavation of concrete.” […] We removed loose, cracked, spalled, deteriorated and delaminated concrete from the balcony soffits of 114 units as well as pool corbels to prevent it from falling, and removed all deteriorated, debonded and falling stucco from balconies.

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動詞

corbel (third-person singular simple present corbels, present participle (US) corbeling or (UK) corbelling, simple past and past participle (US) corbeled or (UK) corbelled)

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

派生語

• corbel out

Further reading

• corbel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Cobler, cobler