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corbel out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one below it.
    • The modern house, although it had a well-designed south elevation, in which effective use had been made of mullioned oriel windows corbelled out from the first floor, was less successful inside—if the architect's intention had been to give the impression of age and dignity. 1922, J. D. Beresford, The Prisoners Of Hartling:
    • The front of this tower [a staircase tower in Châteaudun], which is flush with the wall of the façade, is treated as an enriched bay, the upper two stories of it reaching above the main cornice, and being flanked by round turrets overhanging the wall, which is corbelled out to support them. 1905, Charles Herbert Moore, Character of Renaissance Architecture, Chapter 11:

Forms

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corbeling out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
corbelled out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
corbelled out Tense=Past UK lexicographic
corbeled out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
corbeled out Tense=Past US lexicographic
corbels out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
corbelling out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic

Synonyms

corbel off