CORBET - Tom the Space Cadet
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CORBEL
PRONUNCIATION: (KOR-buhl)
MEANING: noun: 1. An architectural support projecting from a wall to bear weight.
verb tr.: 1. To arrange (bricks, stones, etc.) in stepped courses to form a corbel.
2. To support by means of a corbel or corbels.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French corbel (little raven), a diminutive of corp or corb (raven), from Latin corvus (raven), apparently alluding to the corbel’s beaklike shape. Earliest documented use: c. 1400 for the noun and 1859 for the verb.
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BORBEL - what a Jabberwock does as it comes whiffling through the tulgey wood
COBBEL - (verb) what a shoemaker does; (noun) the capital of Afghanistan
CORPEL - pertaining to the wrist body
