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Gable vs Gabel - What's the difference?

gable | gabel |

As nouns the difference between gable and gabel

is that gable is gable (triangular area of wall) while gabel is (uk|legal|obsolete) a rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

gable

English

(wikipedia gable)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gable (compare modern French ).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) The triangular area of external wall adjacent to two meeting sloped roofs.
    • Derived terms
    * gable roof
    See also
    * pediment

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cable.
    • (Chapman)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    gabel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, legal, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
    • (Burrill)
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.
    (Webster 1913) ----