corbel

• If they gave a month or more to the carving of a single capital or corbel, he made no remonstrance. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1
• Dutch houses were set close to the sidewalk with the gable-end to the street; and had the roof notched like steps,--corbel-roof was the name; and these ends were often of brick, while the rest of the walls were of wood. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• "Here you, Strake, don't stand grinning there like a corbel on an old church Couldn't help it, your honour There, you see, uncle I don't, sir. —  Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea
• The upper band consists of circular openings with quatrefoils in the centre, and above that is a corbel-table. —  Ely Cathedral
• Between each of the lower arches is a corbel or elongated bracket profusely adorned with foliage carved in high relief, richly coloured and gilded; from this rises a column between the upper arches, and from the top of this column spring the ribs of the vaulting, which spread in lavish ramifications over it, dividing it into angular compartments, and at the angles are flowers and other ornaments, curiously carved, and originally were coloured. —  Ely Cathedral

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