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plural corbels
(architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight. quotations examples
The booking hall is lofty and of peculiar design, the roof being carried on timbered beams set in pairs rising from carved corbels.
1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283
third-person singular simple present corbels, present participle corbelling or corbeling, simple past and past participle corbelled or corbeled
(transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. examples