noun. A piece of stone, wood, brick, or other building material, projecting from the face of a wall and generally used to support a cornice or arch.

transitive verb. To provide with or support by a corbel or corbels.

To support on corbels.

In architecture, to expand by extending each member of a series beyond the one below.

noun. A raven or crow; a corbie.

noun. In architecture, a piece of stone, wood, or iron projecting from the vertical face of a wall to support some superincumbent object.

noun. The vase or drum of the Corinthian column: so called from its resemblance to a basket.

noun. In entomology, the truncated oval tip of the tibia, when, as in many Rhynchophera, the insertion of the tarsus is a little above the tip on the inner side.

noun. A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

transitive verb. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

transitive verb. to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.

noun. A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

verb. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

noun. (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

verb. furnish with a corbel

"A corbel is a stone bracket that projects from a wall or corner, either to support a beam or for decoration."

corbeled capital  

corbelling  corbie step  

bracket  furnish  provide  render  supply  

warble  

apsidal  are  bombproof  brick dust  buttressing  

corbelled  corbelling  corbels