"corbie step" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1904, Montague Rhodes James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, number 13",
          "text": "It is a great red-brick house - that is, the front is of brick, with corbie steps on the gables and a text over the door; but the courtyard into which the omnibus drives is of black and white 'cage-work' in wood and plaster.",
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        "One of a series of step-like projections at the top of a gable."
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        "(architecture) One of a series of step-like projections at the top of a gable."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "corbel"
        },
        {
          "word": "corbie gable"
        }
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        {
          "word": "cat-step"
        },
        {
          "word": "crow step"
        },
        {
          "word": "corbie-step"
        },
        {
          "word": "corbiestep"
        }
      ],
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        "architecture"
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  "word": "corbie step"
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      "word": "corbel"
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      ],
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        "(architecture) One of a series of step-like projections at the top of a gable."
      ],
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        "architecture"
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      "word": "cat-step"
    },
    {
      "word": "crow step"
    },
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