Corbel vs Lintel - What's the difference?
corbel | lintel |
(architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
(architecture) A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
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In architecture terms the difference between corbel and lintel
is that corbel is a structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight while lintel is a horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.As a verb corbel
is to furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.As a proper noun Lintel is
the computing environment of the Linux operating system running on an Intel CPU; mostly in a server.corbel
English
(wikipedia corbel)Noun
(en noun)Verb
Derived terms
* corbel out ----lintel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Athelny had told him that he lived in a house built by Inigo Jones; he had raved, as he raved over everything, over the balustrade of old oak; and when he came down to open the door for Philip he made him at once admire the elegant carving of the lintel .