Definition of "gambrel-roof" [gambrel-roof]

• A roof the slope of which is broken by an obtuse angle like that of an animal's gambrel; a curb-roof. See extract under (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Flathead Indian squeezes the child's skull between two boards till it shapes itself into a kind of gambrel-roof against the rain, -- the readiest way, perhaps, of uniforming a tribe that wear no clothes."
• "With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green,"
• "The sun was just rising and showering his first rays on the gambrel-roof and solid stone walls of a house surrounded by a magnificent grove of walnuts, and overlooking one of the beautiful valleys so common in southeastern Pennsylvania."