Gambrel /(?)/

Gam·brel

Gambrel

n.
  1. The hind leg of a horse.
  2. A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

Phrases & Compounds
Gambrel roof
a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.

Gambrel

v. t.
  1. To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.