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 cor·bel /ˈkɔrbəl/
 承材,枕梁

 Cor·bel, v. t. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
 To corbel out, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.
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 Cor·bel n.  Arch. A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
 Note: ☞ A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.

 corbel
      n : (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone
          (usually of slight extent) [syn: truss]
      v : furnish with a corbel