Gambrel

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The hind leg of a horse.

2. A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals. Gambrel roof (Arch.), a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel. Beau. & Fl.