Arch. (In Sc. craw-.) = CORBIE-STEP (see CORBIE 3).

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1824.  Scott, Redgauntlet, ch. xx. Reckoning from the crawstep to the groundsill.

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1884.  A. Lang, in Century Mag., Jan., 331/1. The houses have the old ‘crow-step’ on the gable.

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  attrib.  1839–40.  W. Irving, Wolfert’s R., 12. The crow-step gables were of the primitive architecture of the province.

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  Hence Crow-stepped ppl. a.

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1853.  Turner, Dom. Archit., III. II. vii. 300. Several of the gables are crow-stepped.

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