Fiber is also known as roughage. It is the indigestible part of plant foods that pushes through our digestive system, absorbing water along the way and easing bowel movements. The word fiber (North American) can also be spelled fibre (British).
1. the hock of an animal, esp. of a horse. 2. Also called gamâ²brel stick`. a wood or metal device for suspending a slaughtered animal. hockshin, gambrel - The underside of the thigh is the hockshin or gambrel.
gambrel roof. 1. a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1). The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof. It has a gambrel roof, and is on the left when the train is going westward.