Crossword clues for corbel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corbel \Cor"bel\, v. t. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
To corbel out, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.
Corbel \Cor"bel\ (k[^o]r"b[e^]l), n. [F. corbeau, for older corbel, dim. of L. corbis basket. (Corbels were often in the form of a basket.) See Corbeil.] (Arch.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
Note: A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French corbel, diminutive of corb "raven," from Latin corvus (see raven); so called from its beaked shape.
Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight. vb. (context transitive English) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
WordNet
v. furnish with a corbel
n. (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) [syn: truss]
Wikipedia
In architecture a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the structure. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger" in the UK. The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or parapet, has been used since Neolithic, or New Stone Age, times. It is common in Medieval architecture and in the Scottish baronial style as well as in the vocabulary of classical architecture, such as the modillions of a Corinthian cornice, Hindu temple architecture and in ancient Chinese architecture.
A console is more specifically an "S"-shaped scroll bracket in the classical tradition, with the upper or inner part larger than the lower (as in the first illustration) or outer. Keystones are also often in the form of consoles. Whereas "corbel" is rarely used outside architecture, "console" is widely used for furniture, as in console table, and other decorative arts where the motif appears.
The word "corbel" comes from Old French and derives from the Latin , a diminutive of (" raven"), which refers to the beak-like appearance. Similarly, the French refer to a bracket-corbel, usually a load-bearing internal feature, as a (" crow").
Corbel is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Jeremy Tankard for Microsoft and released in 2005. It is part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts from various designers released with Windows Vista. All start with the letter C to reflect that they were designed to work well with Microsoft's ClearType text rendering system, a text rendering engine designed to make text clearer to read on LCD monitors. The other fonts in the same group are Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas and Constantia.
- A corbel is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight.
- A series of corbelled pieces produce a Corbel arch or vault.
Corbel may also refer to:
- Corbel, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France
- Corbel (typeface), a sans-serif typeface published by Microsoft
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.