gambrel

Meanings

1. The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
2. A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
3. A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
4. A gambrel roof.

1. To truss or hang up using a gambrel.

1. A surname.

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).