English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woord "gewel" is 'n byvoeglike naamwoord wat 'n gebou of deel van 'n gebou beskryf, soos 'n dak of fasade, wat 'n driehoekige vorm het wat gevorm word deur twee skuins sye wat aan die bokant ontmoet. Die term "gewel" verwys na die driehoekige gedeelte van 'n muur tussen die rande van 'n skuins dak. Dus, 'n "geweldak" is een wat 'n gewel aan elke kant het, terwyl 'n "gewelfasade" een is wat 'n gewel in die middel of aan die een kant het.

Sentence Examples

  1. The house was a small, squat building with a gabled roof and a window on either side of the door.
  2. Without breaking stride, he was suddenly in the front yard of a farmhouse, walking toward a quaint little home with a gabled roof and orange lights in its windows.
  3. Her eyes were set on a nearby building with unpainted walls and a gabled roof with cypress bark shingles.
  4. Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.
  5. Its gabled roof was still slick from a recent rainfall.
  6. At the back of the building block, along a crumbling old brick wall were some gabled doors.