Gable

A gable is the portion of a wall between the lines of a sloping roof.
Gable may also refer to:
People:
Gable, a surname
Clark Gable (1901–1960), American actor
Dan Gable (born 1948), American freestyle wrestler and college wrestling coach
Gable Garenamotse (born 1977), Botswana long jumper
Places:
Gable Field, Oklahoma, aka Doc Wadley Stadium
Gable Mansion, Woodland, California
Gable Mountain, Montana
Great Gable, English mountain
Green Gable, English fell
Other uses:
Gableboat, a traditional Norwegian fishing vessel
Gable hood, an English woman's headdress
Gable stone, an ornament in Dutch architecture
NRX-010 Gable, a weapon in the fictional television series After War Gundam X
an ethnic slur for a black person
See also:
Gables

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"end of a ridged roof cut off in a vertical plane, together with the wall from the level of the eaves to the apex," mid-14c., "a gable of a building; a facade," from Old French gable "facade, front, gable," from Old Norse gafl "gable, gable-end" (in north of England, the word probably is directly from Norse), according to Watkins, probably from Proto-Germanic *gablaz "top of a pitched roof" (source also of Middle Dutch ghevel, Dutch gevel, Old High German gibil, German Giebel, Gothic gibla "gable"). This is traced to a PIE *ghebh-el- "head," which seems to have yielded words meaning both "fork" (such as Old English gafol, geafel, Old Saxon gafala, Dutch gaffel, Old High German gabala "pitchfork," German Gabel "fork;" Old Irish gabul "forked twig") and "head" (such as Old High German gibilla, Old Saxon gibillia "skull"). See cephalo-. Possibly the primitive meaning of the words may have been 'top', 'vertex'; this may have given rise to the sense of 'gable', and this latter to the sense of 'fork', a gable being originally formed by two pieces of timber crossed at the top supporting the end of the roof-tree. [OED] Related: Gabled; gables; gable-end.

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Habitational name derived from a place named from Old Norse gafl, means: gable, triangular-shaped hill.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Clark Gable	1901	American film actor
2	Chad Gable	1986	Olympic amateur wrestler and professional wrestler
3	Clark James Gable	1988	American actor
4	Dan Gable	1948	Olympic Wrestler, Collegiate Coach
5	June Gable	1945	American actress
6	Christopher Gable	1940	Dancer and actor
7	John Clark Gable	1961	American actor
8	Gerry Gable	1937	British political activist
9	Jeremy Gable	1982	American writer
10	Mark Gable	1950	Australian musician
11	C. J. Gable	1987	Player of American football
12	Guitar Gable	1937	American swamp blues musician
13	Ashley Gable		American television producer and writer
14	Eric Gable		American musician
15	Brian Gable	1949	Canadian editorial cartoonist
16	Gable Carr	1979	American actress
17	Gable Garenamotse	1977	Athletics competitor
18	Michelle Gable
19	Bob Gable	1934	American politician
20	John Allen Gable	1943	American historian
21	Howard Gable		New Zealand record producer
22	Ellen Gable	1959	Catholic novelist, speaker, VP of the Catholic Writers Guild
23	Gilbert Gable
24	Jennifer Gable
25	Anna Gable	1961