That specially constructed portion in a course of brickwork or stonework in the construction of a wall that sticks outwards from the vertical surface. In a ‘corbelled arch’ successive courses project ever further outwards until one side of...

In architecture a corbel (or console) is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger". The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels...