gambol, gambold, gambole, gamboll

i. [GAMBOL, 8.] 1. To frisk or skip about; to frolic; to dance; to play in frolics. 8. "Bears, tigers, ounces, pards, Gambolled before them." - Milton : P. L., iv. 345. 2. To leap, to start. "I the matter will record, which madne Would gambol from." --Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 4. găm-bol, *gam-bauld, *gam-bold, *gam-boll, [O. Fr. gambade =a gambol, from Ital. gambata =a kick; gamba =the leg.] A skipping or dancing about; a frolic; a caper; merriment, sport. "All kinds of freedom of speech was then [in their Saturnalia] allowed to slaves, even against their masters; and we are not without some imitation of it in our Christ mas gambols ." -Dryden: Juvenal. (Dedic.) For the difference between gambol and frolic , See FROLIC. *gam-bone, s. [GAMMON, 8. (1).] A gammon. găm-brěl, s. [Ital. gambrella , dim in. of gamba = a leg.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. The hind leg of a horse. "As appears it hath, by the weight which the tendon lying on a horse's gambrel doth then command."-Grew: Cosmologia Sacra , bk. i., ch. v. 1967 2. A bent stick like a horse's hind leg; used for suspending carca es. II. Arch.: A gambrel-roof (q. v.). gambrel-roof, s. Arch.: A roof with two sets of rafters at different inclinations; a mansard roof. gambrel-roofed, a. Having a gambrel or mansard roof. Găm-bri-nus, s . [A corruption of Jan Primus .] A Flemish king, the reputed inventor of lager beer. He is supposed to have lived about A. D. 1270.