gable
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Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
Rather than catching fire from direct contact with flames, many homes begin to burn due to embers that can fly miles, entering through eaves or gable vents.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025
Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2022
You can get motorized lifts with large articulating arms that allow you to safely paint that tall gable end on your home or reach a difficult sidewall above a steep roof.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022
I sawed wood and made a gable for the millhouse roof and shingles to cover it.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing gable
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