corbel

corbel is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
2. transitive verb. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
3. noun. (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

   Synonyms: truss

4. verb. furnish with a corbel

Synonyms

truss

Common word forms

corbels, corbeled, corbeling, corbelled, corbelling

Words from these letters

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