corbel out

English

A church with a corbelled out bell tower

Verb

corbel out (third-person singular simple present corbels out, present participle corbelling out, simple past and past participle corbelled out)

  1. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one below it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corbel out in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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