gambrel.

A roof with two slopes on each side, the lower slope steeper than the upper.

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Words that belong together

• gambrel roof
• timber gambrel
• gambrel-roofed barn

On the page

The barn’s gambrel roof gave the loft a spacious center.

From the road, the gambrel showed a sharp change in slope.

Snow lingered on the gambrel’s shallower upper surfaces.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular gambrel; plural gambrels. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.