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To heel-hang a carcass, cut a gambrel stick, sharpen its ends, and push it through cuts made in the hock skin between the big tendon and the bone.
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Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
Paolucci also works closely with clients to develop plans that fit their needs and budget, designing in a variety of architectural styles from modern to classic gambrel style.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 15 Apr. 2025
The second floor has two more bedrooms and another full bath, with shallow alcoves in the bedrooms following the gambrel roofline adding space and visual interest.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 22 Dec. 2024
Wall panels and wardrobe doors opened to reveal, variously, a garden, a snowdrift, and a deer carcass hanging on a gambrel.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
On Shelter Island, a 10,000-square-foot gambrel-style house with a 150-foot dock on Peconic Bay closed for $9.1 million last month after sitting on the market, initially at $10.9 million for two to three years.
—New York Times, 14 May 2021
Hanging an animal on a gambrel, particularly in a meat locker, is cleaner and easier.
—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
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Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
Paolucci also works closely with clients to develop plans that fit their needs and budget, designing in a variety of architectural styles from modern to classic gambrel style.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 15 Apr. 2025
The second floor has two more bedrooms and another full bath, with shallow alcoves in the bedrooms following the gambrel roofline adding space and visual interest.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 22 Dec. 2024
Wall panels and wardrobe doors opened to reveal, variously, a garden, a snowdrift, and a deer carcass hanging on a gambrel.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
On Shelter Island, a 10,000-square-foot gambrel-style house with a 150-foot dock on Peconic Bay closed for $9.1 million last month after sitting on the market, initially at $10.9 million for two to three years.
—New York Times, 14 May 2021
Hanging an animal on a gambrel, particularly in a meat locker, is cleaner and easier.
—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
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“Gambrel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gambrel. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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