1) Beast 2) Ornament
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1) Custom firmware 2) Fictional monster 3) French word used in English 4) Grotesque medieval spout 5) Grotesque waterspout 6) Gutter garnish 7) Quaint building decoration 8) Roof spout, at times 9) Spout 10) Supernatural legend 11) Ugly waterspout 12) Waterspout of a special form
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In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between. Architects often used multiple gargoyles on buildings to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof to minimi...
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[router firmware] Gargoyle is a free OpenWrt-based Linux distribution for a range of Broadcom and Atheros chipset based wireless routers, mainly the older-model Linksys WRT54G (including the WRT54GL and WRT54GS), Asus Routers and Netgear WNR3500L. Among notable features is the ability to limit and monitor bandwidth and set bandwidth caps pe...
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• (n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
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From the French term gargouille, meaning throat. The word refers to sound which water makes as it passes through the gullet. Originally, a reference to the drains atop cathedrals that were later carved into the form of beasts or animals.
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in architecture, waterspout designed to drain water from the parapet gutter. Originally the term referred only to the carved lions of classical ...
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In architecture, a lead or stone spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building with the purpose of directing water away from the wall. The term is usually applied to the ornamental forms found...
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a projecting water spout, usually grotesquely carved in the form of an animal or human figure.
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A projection from a wallhead, originally designed to take rainwater away from the face of the wall. In many 19th century buildings gargoyles are fitted with no practical function, as rainwater is disposed of through downpipes. Related Words: Down pipe; Wallhead
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A projecting stone, ususally carved in a grotesque manner, which throws rainwater away from the walls and footings of a church
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A projecting stone, ususally carved in a grotesque manner, which throws rainwater away from the walls and footings of a church
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Carved figure with grotesque features; often on corners of buildings.
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A waterspout carved in the shape of a fantastic or grotesque creature. At Mission San Luis Rey, water gushed through the mouth of this gargoyle into the laundry (lavandería) and into a trough past the working women. Mission Santa Barbara's lavandería features a more representational waterspout in the shape of a bear.
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Gar'goyle noun [ Middle English garguilie , gargouille , confer Spanish gárgola , probably from the same source as French gorge throat, influenced by Latin gargarizare to gargle. See Gorge and confer Gargle , Gargarize .] (Architecture)
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Gargoyle is a tasty cask bitter from the Lichfield brewery in the Midlands.
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In Gothic architecture a gargoyle is a projecting spout used to throw the water from the gutter of a building off the wall. Sometimes they are perfectly plain, but are more often carved into figures or animals, which are frequently grotesque. These are very commonly represented with open mouths, from which the water issues, but in many cases it is ...
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"Gargoyles were created with a two-fold practical purpose. One, to ward off evil and second, to eject excess water from the exterior of buildings. A gargoyle, although sometimes mistaken for a grotesque, is a spout or eavestrough carved in the form of a human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to catch rainwater and throw it clear of .....
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grotesque carving
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[
n] - a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal 2. [n] - an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
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noun an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
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[Literary terms] an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure
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