gambrel

• The house in which the first Israel Putnam was born, an old colonial, gambrel-roofed structure, still stands where it was erected by his grandfather in 1648, near the foot of Hathorne Hill, in Danvers, on the turn-pike road half-way between Boston and Newburyport. —  Old Put The Patriot
• Gray gambrel-roofed houses stand out here and there, with thick-throated chimneys that seem to hold the whole together. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
• The Boardman Hill House, built at North Saugus, Massachusetts, two centuries and a half ago, and the two houses of lean-to form, the birthplaces of President John Adams and of President John Quincy Adams, are typical examples The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• The Flathead Indian squeezes the child's skull between two boards till it shapes itself into a kind of gambrel-roof against the rain,--the readiest way, perhaps, of uniforming a tribe that wear no clothes. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
• I was tired of this fruitless quest among strangers, so far from the little that I held dear, and I was on the point of giving up when this paragraph fell under my eye in a Montreal newspaper A MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER One who has ever passed the city of Ogdensburg by steamer will no doubt recall a large gambrel-roofed house standing near the water's edge, just out of the town, surrounded by towering trees and enclosed on all sides by a wall nearly as high as the eaves of the building. —  The Master of Silence

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