jerkinhead
The word jerkin can mean:-
- A garment: see Jerkin (garment).
- Falconer's term for a male gyrfalcon.
- In architecture the term jerkin roof, or Jerkinhead, is applied to a particular form of gable end, the gable being cut off half way up the roof and sloping back like a "hipped roof" to the edge.
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