gambrel (gambrel)

t.; pret. and pp. gam game cards, dice, or roulette; the games of billiards, draughts, and dominoes; athletic games; the Floral games. The games of cla ical antiquity were chiefly public trials of athletic skill and endurance, as in throwing the discus, wrestling, boxing, leaping, running, horse and chariot-racing, etc. They were exhibited either periodically, usually in honor of some god, as the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games of Greece, the Ludi A poll in a res at Rome, etc., or from time to time for the amusement of the people, as the Circensian games at Rome. The prizes in the Greek periodical games were generally without intrinsic value, as garlands or wreaths of olive or laurel-leaves, of parsley, etc.; but at the Panathenaic games of Athens the prizes were quantities of olive-oil from the consecrated orchards, given in a special type of painted amphoræ, of which a hundred or more might constitute a single prize. The four great Greek national games formed the strongest bond in the nature of a national union between the various independent Greek states. At them any person of Hellenic blood had the ling. [ gambrel, n.] 1. To hang up by means of a gambrel thrust through the legs. And meet me: or I'll box you while I have you, And carry you gambrill'd thither like a mutton. Fletcher (and another ?), Nice Valour, iv. 1. 2. To form with a curb or crook: as, a gambreled roof. Here and there was a house in the then new style, three cornered, with gambrel led roof and dormer windows. S. Judd , Margaret, p. 33. ( Bartlett . ) gambrel-roof (gam'brel-röf), n. A roof the slope of which is broken by an obtuse angle like that of an animal's gambrel; a curb-roof. See extract under gambrel , n., 1. gambroon (gam-brön'), n. [Perhaps Bender Abbasi ), from which a large export trade was formerly carried on.] A twilled cloth: (1) of worsted and cotton, used for summer trousers; (2) of linen, made for linings: Dict. of Needlework .