n. [ F. corbeau, for older corbel, dim. of L. corbis basket. (Corbels were often in the form of a basket.) See Corbeil. ] (Arch.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. [ 1913 Webster ]

To corbel out, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Arch.) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them. [ 1913 Webster ]