| 单词 | half-hip roof |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-hip roof A type of roof end consisting of a hipped top part and a gabled bottom part; (also) the hipped top part in a roof end of this kind. Frequently as a modifier, esp. in half-hip roof. Cf. half-hipped adj.Quot. 1868 might instead show half modifying hip roof (see hip roof n.). ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally vaulta1387 plat-roofa1425 pend1454 faunsere1460 compassed roofa1552 terrace1572 sotie1578 crown1588 arch-roof1594 arch1609 under-roof1611 concameration1644 voltoa1660 hip roof1663 French roof1669 oversail1673 jerkinhead1703 mansard1704 curb-roof1733 shed roof1736 gable roof1759 gambrel roof1761 living roof1792 pent roof1794 span-roof1823 wagon-head1823 azotea1824 rafter roof1825 rooflet1825 wagon-vault1835 bell-roof1842 spire-roof1842 cradle-roof1845 packsaddle roof1845 open roof1847 umbrella roof1847 gambrel1848 packsaddle1848 compass-roof1849 saddleback1849 saddle roof1850 curbed roof1866 wagon-roof1866 saw-tooth roof1900 trough roof1905 skillion roof1911 north-light roof1923 shell roof1954 green roof1984 knee-roof- society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > hipped upper part of gable jerkinhead1703 kirkin-head1703 shread head1842 1868 Technologisches Wörterbuch III. 554/1 Toit en demi-croupe, das Halbwalmdach,..false or half hip-roof. 1877 Building News 19 Oct. 393/1 One end [of the conservatory] is finished with a half-hip. 1899 Kansas City Jrnl. 29 Jan. 5/5 The skylight over the postoffice at its highest point, which is the apex of the half-hip roof.., will be nearly fifty feet above the floor. 1930 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 78 793 We go on..to look at this cottage in a Sussex village, where you have the use of the half-hip or jerkin head gable roof. 1992 G. T. Pearson Conservation Clay & Chalk Buildings (1997) ii. 37 Many roofs appear to have been altered during the nineteenth century to improve the accommodation on the upper floor by replacing the half-hips with gables. 2004 R. W. Brunskill Trad. Buildings of Brit. iv. 58 The earliest and smallest ones [sc. cottages] are very low with the loft space lit by a small window in a gable, under a half-hip. < as lemmas |
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