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gable-end
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n.
a summer kitchen, wood-shed, etc. attached to a house.
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1830
A hut formed of rough logs, or long, straight trunks, placed one upon the other as they are cut from the forest, has now become the gable-end, or, (as we should deem it in England), the "wash house" to a neatly boarded cottage.