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Definition of Corbels

Corbel
Corbel Cor"bel, v. t. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. To corbel out, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.
Corbel
Corbel Cor"bel, n. [F. corbeau, for older corbel, dim. of L. corbis basket. (Corbels were often in the form of a basket.) See Corbeil.] (Arch.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. Note: A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.

Meaning of Corbels from wikipedia

- varying corbels.[citation needed] A corbel table is a projecting moulded string course supported by a range of corbels. Sometimes these corbels carry a...
- also refer to: A corbel arch, an arch or vault produced by stacked cantilevered corbels Corbel, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France Corbel (typeface), a sans-serif...
- A corbel arch (or corbeled / corbelled arch) is an arch-like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or...
- A corbelled tomb is a generic term given to burial tombs with corbelled roofs rather than simple slabs, which generally denote an earlier type of construction...
- Corbel is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Jeremy Tankard for Microsoft. It is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various...
- Cécile Corbel (born 28 March 1980, in Pont-Croix, Finistère, France) is a French and Breton singer, harpist, and composer. She has released five albums...
- main wall of a building but does not reach to the ground. Supported by corbels, brackets, or similar cantilevers, an oriel window generally projects from...
- Corbel (French pronunciation: [kɔʁbɛl]; Arpitan: Korbé) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France...
- battlements over a series of corbels. The clock tower above also features such an arrangement with battlements and corbels. The overall design is similar...
- Erwann Corbel (born 20 April 1991) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for French amateur team ES Torigni. Corbel rode professionally between 2013...