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gable end

NOUN
  1. the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof

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  • Worthy of note too was the altar arrangements beneath the gable end of what was once the Parish Church of Monasterevin.
  • It is a real shame even to have lost the Victorian structure, but some of the frontage and the gable end are even older.
  • The 'land' stood in the narrowest part of the wynd; right opposite, and not more than five feet away rose the opposite wall, finishing off into a gable end with corbie-steps affording easy access to the further roof. Border Ghost Stories
  • _ A church, with central spire, a cross at each gable end, masoned walls imitating ashlar-work, and traceried windows, standing on a ship with a castle at each end, that on the left pointed, that on the right square, on the sea. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
  • Tons of bricks and rubble crashed on to the pavement as half the gable end of the building gave way.
  • Interior water vapor can also move into the attic space and condense on the gable ends, causing paint peeling there.
  • But in Byrom Street, Blackburn town centre, near to the old St Wilfrid's school building, the gable end of a derelict church was blown down.
  • The roof of a one-time fine farmstead is falling in, a gable end collapsed, lath and plaster rotting - romantic?
  • It was a lovely evening, we watched hundreds of masonry bees excavating the soft sandstone of a gable end, chortled at a dollop of doggerel on the subject of dog dirt and strode off down a dead-end lane.
  • The gable end of a newly-built block of flats came tumbling down in Topping Street, off Walmersley Road, Bury, and landed on a Mercedes car, smashing its windows.
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