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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gam·brel 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.
 Gambrel roof Arch., 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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 gambrel roof
      n : a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower
          slope being steeper [syn: gambrel]