(n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
(v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Right faction pushes to use Young Labor for votes majority at national conference Read more “This change to Labor platform would set two key goals, a 50% reduction in carbon emissions on a 2000 baseline year by 2030, and 50% renewables by the same year,” Corbell told a clean energy summit in Sydney on Wednesday.
(2) The ACT’s deputy chief minister, Simon Corbell, has called on the federal leadership to adopt the Lean position next weekend.
(3) Corbell has not spoken to Brandis directly about the fifth tranche of anti-terrorism laws, but said his department had raised concerns about lowering the age of control orders to 14.
(4) Passengers using regional rail services, however, might well complain that because the great train shed at St Pancras is given over, lock, stock and corbel, to Eurostar services, they have been demoted to platforms under a new, flat concrete, steel and glass roof, described as a "magic carpet" by its architects, set at the very far end of the station and seemingly closer to Manchester than Euston Road.
(5) The ACT attorney general, Simon Corbell, told Guardian Australia there had been a “significant level of harmonisation” in police power and detention laws, and NSW’s threat to break away would represent a “very significant departure” in that harmonisation.
(6) From the dust and soot of the Euston Road rose a Railway Age cathedral, cloth hall and castle, all hammered and crafted into a convincing and enthralling whole, borrowing spires, arches, corbels and crockets from Amiens, Brussels, Ypres and all cardinal gothic points south through the Alps to Verona and Venice.
(7) "Regardless of what happens in the high court, the significance of this moment will remain and send a strong signal about what a contemporary 21st century Australia should look like," ACT attorney-general Simon Corbell said.
(8) Serological comparison of the prototype and an epizootic (Corbell) strain of simian hemorrhagic fever virus revealed that the two viruses were serologically similar.
(9) Serological comparison of the prototype virus grown in tissue culture and its homologous antibody and the prototype and Corbell viruses recovered from rhesus monkey serum and their homologous antibodies showed differences and suggest that a complex relationship exists which has not yet been defined.
(10) It is a leap of faith now to accept Simon Corbell’s assurances that the amendments will make this bill lawful when he’s spent the last few weeks arguing against the need for any such amendments,” Hanson said during the debate.
(11) The prototype strain differs from the Corbell strain in that the latter cannot be cultivated in vitro.
(12) It is very difficult to see justification in extending control orders to people of this age,” Corbell said, adding that children of that age could not independently form the intent required for political and religious extremism.
(13) Hanson criticised Corbell for producing amendments at the last minute, saying they prevented proper scrutiny by the assembly.
(14) It’s a corbelled pigsty,” says Duane Fitzsimons next day, pointing out a tiny medieval stone building near the lighthouse.
(15) The ACT attorney general, Simon Corbell, said the amendments were intended to make it clear that the two legal regimes, the territory law and the commonwealth’s Marriage Act, were envisaged to work concurrently.
(16) Corbell said the territory’s move posed no threat to the commonwealth – and it had been established that the regulation of relationships was a shared power.
Machicolation
Definition:
(n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.
(n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.