GAMBREL, GAMBRIL
\ɡˈambɹə͡l], \ɡˈambɹəl], \ɡ_ˈa_m_b_ɹ_əl]\
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The hind-leg of a horse: a stick crooked like a horse's leg, used by butchers for suspending animals while dressing them. "Spied two of them hung out at a stall, with a gambril thrust from shoulder to shoulder, like a sheep that was new-flayed."-Chapman..
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To tie or hang up by means of a gambril thrust through the legs. "I'll … carry you gambrell'd like a mutton."-Beau & Fl.
By Daniel Lyons
