Associations to the word «Gable»

Wiktionary

GABLE, noun. (architecture) The triangular area of external wall adjacent to two meeting sloped roofs.
GABLE, noun. A cable.
GABLE END, noun. (architecture) The side of a building which is topped by a gable
GABLE ROOF, noun. (roofing) a single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends.
GABLE ROOFS, noun. Plural of gable roof

Dictionary definition

GABLE, noun. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
GABLE, noun. United States film actor (1901-1960).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne