Corbel
Corbel (kôr"bel) , noun
[French corbeau, for older corbel, dim. of Latin corbis basket. (Corbels were often in the form of a basket.) See Corbeil.]
(Architecture) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.
Corbel , transitive verb
To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Collocations (1)
To corbel out , to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.