gambrel

taitekatto The hind leg of a horse.
puhekieltä A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
puhekieltä A gambrel roof.
To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.9:

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

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