Gibel
See also: gibel
Alemannic German
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- gable; crest (of a roof)
- 1966, Georg Thürer, Rund umme Blattetisch, page 44:
- Wer früehnder vu Netschtel gu Glaris ufe-n-isch, hät linggerhand dry uumäär Nußbäum gsih und rächts vu der alte Landstraß es Hüüsli miteme hööche Gibel.
- Anyone who used to come/go up from Netstal to Glarus has seen three very lovely walnut trees on the left-hand side and a high-gabled little house to the right of the old country road.
- pediment
- (slang) head