Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gargoyle

Gargoyle , noun

[Old English garguilie, gargouille, compare Sp. gárgola, prob. from the same source as French gorge throat, influenced by Latin gargarizare to gargle. See Gorge and compare Gargle, Gargarize.]

(Architecture) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.