Crossword clues for gargoyle
gargoyle
- Spout ending in a grotesquely carved figure
- It's grotesque to use mouthwash to entertain young male with shaved head
- Grotesque medieval spout
- Grotesque architectural figure
- Building feature
- Weird-looking figure on many a Gothic cathedral
- Waterspout at Notre Dame Cathedral, notably
- Ugly-faced waterspout
- Ugly spouting face?
- Roof spout, at times
- Grotesque building carving
- Quaint building decoration
- An ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
- A spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
- Notre Dame feature
- Gutter garnish
- Gutter spout from glory age renovated
- Grotesque waterspout
- Grotesque face as an architectural feature
- Grotesque carving
- Swill round, swallowing only in extremis? That’s grotesque
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gargoyle \Gar"goyle\, n. [OE. garguilie, gargouille, cf. Sp. g['a]rgola, prob. fr. the same source as F. gorge throat, influenced by L. gargarizare to gargle. See Gorge and cf. Gargle, Gargarize.] (Arch.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"grotesque carved waterspout," connected to the gutter of a building to throw down water clear of the wall, common in 13c.-16c. buildings; late 13c., gargoile, also garguile, gargule, etc., "carved mouth of a rain spout, a gargoyle," from Old French gargole, gargoule "throat;" also "carved downspout," in the form of a serpent or some other fanciful shape, also from Medieval Latin gargola, gargulio (see gargle (v.)). "An archaic spelling, retained in books; better gargoil or, in more modern form gargel" [Century Dictionary].
Wiktionary
n. 1 A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters. 2 Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building. 3 A fictional winged monster. 4 (context slang pejorative English) An ugly woman.
WordNet
n. a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
Wikipedia
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between. Architects often used multiple gargoyles on buildings to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof to minimize the potential damage from a rainstorm. A trough is cut in the back of the gargoyle and rainwater typically exits through the open mouth. Gargoyles are usually an elongated fantastic animal because the length of the gargoyle determines how far water is thrown from the wall. When Gothic flying buttresses were used, aqueducts were sometimes cut into the buttress to divert water over the aisle walls.
Gargoyle is a name shared by two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a gargoyle is a grotesque winged monstrous humanoid creature, with a horned head and a stony hide.
A gargoyle is a grotesque statue.
Gargoyle may also refer to:
Gargoyle is an adventure module for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The module has the code WG9 and was published by TSR, Inc. in 1989 for the second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules.
Gargoyle is a free OpenWrt-based Linux distribution for a range of wireless routers based on Broadcom or Atheros chipsets, mainly the older Linksys WRT54G series, Asus Routers and Netgear WNR3500L. Among notable features is the ability to limit and monitor bandwidth and set bandwidth caps per specific IP address.
Usage examples of "gargoyle".
Gargoyles and cherubin were carved in stately rows around its cornice, while Corinthian columns held the four porticos at the cardinal compass points.
Snow clung to its gargoyles and crochets, doorcases and window ledges, outlining the Victorian ornamentation in white.
No, I have no quatrefoils, rosettes, gussets, gargoyles or Mexican drawnwork on my house, not even a caryatid.
And before Goya you have to go back to the mediaeval chaps who did the gargoyles and chimaeras on Notre Dame and Mont Saint-Michel.
When she was done, she climbed onto the head of a gargoyle and urged her master forward.
Lord Artos grimaced at me across the fire, his face taking on a gargoyle look in the flames.
All around the battlements, the projectors concealed within the gargoyles and crenelations flared and glowed violet.
And the rain gurgled in the downpipes and gushed from the gargoyles and swirled in the gutters and deadened all sound.
The places were larger than they looked at first glance, but still might have been dismissed as middle-class housing but for the gilding around the windows, doors, and immaculate edgework, and the fact that few middle-class townhouses sported upper-story gargoyles and such intricate wrought-iron works placed almost purely for decoration.
Dark and green of skin, and bearing a close resemblance to the gargoyles of Underhill, Mort had the long, pointed ears of elves.
Odras had been a solitary mage, walking the land of Underhill for centuries, living among the poor, even the gargoyles for a time.
Almost everyone claimed to have seen the gargoyles move or heard a woman wailing.
These collided, then exploded in a sunburst: first gold, then green, then iridescent blue dimming into silver, showering among the marble towers, clinging to the gargoyles and has relief flutings on columns and porticos for a single glorious moment.
You know gargoyles are ferocious predators that attack anything and love to torture their prey.
They laid a task on me -- and one of their pet gargoyles turned my pinky to stone as a reminder.