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GABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof
Synonyms:
gable; gable end; gable wall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gable" is a kind of...):
wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gable"):
bell gable (an extension of a gable that serves as a bell cote)
corbie gable ((architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps)
pediment (a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States film actor (1901-1960)
Synonyms:
Clark Gable; Gable; William Clark Gable
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Context examples:
It arose out of a scuffle between two churchwardens, one of whom was alleged to have pushed the other against a pump; the handle of which pump projecting into a school-house, which school-house was under a gable of the church-roof, made the push an ecclesiastical offence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Why, Mr. Holmes, when you were crawling in the shrubbery at High Gable I was up one of the trees in the plantation and saw you down below.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Back among the groves he could see the high gable ends and thatched roofs of the franklins' houses, on whose fields these men found employment, or more often a thick dark column of smoke marked their position and hinted at the coarse plenty within.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wherever the High Gable folk go he will keep them in sight.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, no, we shall all be justified when we see the tenants of High Gable at the next Guildford Assizes.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is the famous old Jacobean grange of High Gable, one mile on the farther side of Oxshott, and less than half a mile from the scene of the tragedy.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But Mr. Henderson, of High Gable, was by all accounts a curious man to whom curious adventures might befall.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You see, Watson, we have come already upon two sets of foreigners—one at Wisteria Lodge and one at High Gable—so our gaps are beginning to close.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The telegram was a list of names and addresses: Lord Harringby, The Dingle; Sir George Ffolliott, Oxshott Towers; Mr. Hynes Hynes, J.P., Purdley Place; Mr. James Baker Williams, Forton Old Hall; Mr. Henderson, High Gable; Rev. Joshua Stone, Nether Walsling.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
