corbel (redirected from corbels)

cor·bel  (kôrbl, -bl)

n.

A bracket of stone, wood, brick, or other building material, projecting from the face of a wall and generally used to support a cornice or arch.

tr.v. cor·beled also cor·belled, cor·bel·ing also cor·bel·ling, cor·bels also cor·bels

To provide with or support by a corbel or corbels.

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[Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of corp, raven (from the similarity of its shape to that of a raven's beak), from Latin corvus.]

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corbel [ˈkɔːb^əl] Architect

n

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Also called truss a bracket, usually of stone or brick

vb -bels, -belling, -belled US, -bels -beling, -beled

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) (tr) to lay (a stone or brick) so that it forms a corbel

[from Old French, literally: a little raven, from Medieval Latin corvellus, from Latin corvus raven]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	corbel - (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) truss wall bracket, bracket - a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"
Verb	1.	corbel - furnish with a corbel architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" furnish, provide, supply, render - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"

Translations

corbel [ˈkɔːbəl] N → ménsula f, repisa f

corbel

n → Kragstein m, → Konsole f