gambrel/ˈɡæmbɹəl/EtymologyUncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (“leg”).gambrel means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.nameA surname.nounThe hind leg of a horse; the hock.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”A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.A gambrel roof.verbTo truss or hang up using a gambrel.“They raised him so, gambreled up by the bones in his cheek.”