(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

Usage examples of corbel.

On the wall nearest the cenote we found a doorway with a sort of corbelled arch, and when we looked inside there was nothing but darkness and an angry buzz of disturbed wasps.

The roadway intersected an overgrown wall at a corbelled arch that must have been thirty feet tall when it was complete.

She patted the knife, then mounted the heaped stones to the opening at the very top of the corbelled arch.

She saw towers mounting spire on shattered spire, arch and corbel and crenelations as fine as hand-tooled miniatures, with woven trellises of bare branches, and above it all, the broken, arching ribs of the buttresses that were all that remained of the Palace.

The torch bled smoke onto the corbeled ceiling, revealing the symbols of power carved into the stones: ships drawing the sun down to the underworld, the spiral path leading the dead to the Other Side, the hands of the Holy Ones who had gone before, reaching for the four staffs of knowledge.

Hugh walked a circuit of the chamber, shining his lamp into three alcoves built into the corbeled chamber.

This had been a bedroom - that of the child-duke - and some of the garderobes were corbeled out from the living quarters, as in our suite.

An image of Neptune rose from a fountain, nymphs and fauns grinned from the corbels of houses, and the crossroads was marked by a shrine to some local spirit who had recently received a plateful of food and a bunch of flowers as an offering.

The tunnel debouched into a corbeled chamber, dry and dusty and crammed with neat piles of bones laid into alcoves that gleamed fitfully as Elafi turned all the way around to shine his light into each one.

The space was more confined than the view on the screen had suggested, comprising for the most part a vertical rock fault that revealed part of the wall all the way to its top, where it ended in a line of corbeling at about twenty-five feet.

Men marveled at the fluted stone columns rising to hold the massive, cut-stone corbel along the length of the side walls at the base of the gathering hall's barrel ceiling.

The light was coming through an opening about as wide as a garage door topped with the typical Mayan corbeled arch: They stepped outside.

Now, in the purple night, ivory towers with corbeled arches and golden-finialed domes pierced the sky in silent stillness.

Almost as an afterthought she looked around and realized that she'd reached her destination: a pillar rose from either side, leaning inward to meet above her in a corbeled arch.

Almost as an afterthought she looked around and realized that she'd reached her destination: a pillar rose from either side, leaning inward to meet above her in a corbelled arch.