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Rooftree   /rˈuftrˌi/   Listen
Rooftree

noun
1.
A beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters.  Synonyms: ridge, ridgepole.






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"Rooftree" Quotes from Famous Books



... be each hearthstone set Neighboring the violet! Blessed every rooftree prayed Over by the beech's shadel Blessed doorway, opening where We may look on Nature—there Hand to hand and face to face— Storied ...
— Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems • James Whitcomb Riley

... the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home. It has no windows, and the door swings, 390 Dry bones can harm no one. Only a cock stood on the rooftree Co co rico co co rico In a flash of lightning. Then a damp ...
— The Waste Land • T. S. Eliot



Words linked to "Rooftree" :   saddle roof, ridge, saddleback roof, gable roof, ridgepole, beam, saddleback



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