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Look at a house whose roof slides down on two sides, like a triangle sitting on the walls. The gable is not that roof. It is the wall at the end, the part that fills the triangle and often comes to a point. You can stand in the street and see it: a wall with a window, or a round hole, up near the top. Though actually, everyday speakers sometimes wave at the whole pointed end — wall and roof together — and call that the gable. Builders are fussier and mean the wall. You meet the word with old houses, barns, and churches, not with a block of flats that has a flat top.
山牆（屋子兩頭那面尖的牆，不是斜屋頂）
組成The southern English word probably came from Old French gable (compare French gâble), from Old Norse gafl, the same pointed house-end. The old northern form gavel is perhaps from that Norse word too.
同家族的字
- gabledgable + -ed: having one or more gables
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gablename/ˈɡeɪbəl/
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A surname.
gablenoun詞源 1/ˈɡeɪ.bəl/
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architectureThe triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
- It was a queer sort of place—a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly.
- Although there were important developments in the internal organization of Cape houses during this period, their most obvious element is the gable. End-gables were common in medieval northern European and particularly Dutch buildings, but central gables set into the long side of roofs were more unusual and became the quintessential feature of the Cape Dutch style.
gablenoun詞源 2/ˈɡeɪ.bəl/
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obsoleteA cable.
- First, striking sail, their tacklings then they loosed. And (with their gables stoop'd) their mast imposed Into the mast-room.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。