单词 | rooftree |
释义 | rooftree (once / 88867 pages) n WORD FAMILY rooftree: rooftrees USAGE EXAMPLESBut even while he pondered and decided, the god of earthquake heaved a wave against him high as a rooftree and of awful gloom. Homer, The Odyssey(1961) I wanted to go to the rooftree of Maine to start my trip before turning west. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of A...(1962) The roof was gone--burned off; but the rooftree, charred and soot-begrimed, still ran from gable to gable. Weyman, Stanley J., My Lady Rotha—A Romance(2012) n 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 Syn|Hyper ridge, ridgepole beam long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction |
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