Corbel /(kôr"bĕl)/

Cor·bel

Corbel

n.
  1. A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. (Arch.)

Corbel

v. t.
  1. To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

Phrases & Compounds
To corbel out
to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.