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Definition of jerkin head in English: jerkin headnoun Architecture The end of a roof that is hipped for only part of its height, leaving a truncated gable. Example sentencesExamples - The added roof was a steeply pitched interweaving of red tile and jerkin-head gables culminating in a giant chimney on one side.
- The double-tract building with a vestibule on the axis had a pitched roof with jerkin heads and was covered with shingle.
- New structures should have jerkin heads, the roof gradient should be 33%, and the roofs should be tiled.
- To the north of the main gable, there extends a roof ridge terminating in a jerkin-head side gable.
- This center-entrance house has a wide-span porch, its gabled peak blunted by a jerkin head, a popular roof form for bungalows.
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps from an alteration of jerking (from the jerk1 (verb)) + head; compare also with earlier kirkin-head (apparently arbitrarily formed from kirk) in the same sense. Definition of jerkin head in US English: jerkin headnoun Architecture The end of a roof that is hipped for only part of its height, leaving a truncated gable. Example sentencesExamples - New structures should have jerkin heads, the roof gradient should be 33%, and the roofs should be tiled.
- The added roof was a steeply pitched interweaving of red tile and jerkin-head gables culminating in a giant chimney on one side.
- The double-tract building with a vestibule on the axis had a pitched roof with jerkin heads and was covered with shingle.
- This center-entrance house has a wide-span porch, its gabled peak blunted by a jerkin head, a popular roof form for bungalows.
- To the north of the main gable, there extends a roof ridge terminating in a jerkin-head side gable.
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps from an alteration of jerking (from the jerk (verb)) + head; compare also with earlier kirkin-head (apparently arbitrarily formed from kirk) in the same sense. |