Skew Corbels

“In architecture, a stone built into the base of a gable to support the skews or coping above, and resist their tendency to slide down from their bed. Also called summer-stone, skew-put, and skew.” —Whitney, 1889

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architecture, building, house, roof, corbel, construction, stone, stones, Gable, skew, building materials, built, skews

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William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5669

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