gambrel

noun

1. The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
2. (dialectal, historical, obsolete)A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.

   “Within two hours the hog - killed, scalded, and scraped of its hair - was hanging pale from a big tree limb by a gambrel stick run through the tendons of its hind feet”

3. A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
4. A gambrel roof.

verb

1. To truss or hang up using a gambrel.

   “They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.”

   “And meet me; or I'll box you while I have you, And carry you gambril'd thither like a mutton”

name

1. A surname.