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Beam at the very top of a house
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rooftree
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Word definitions for rooftree in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rooftree \Roof"tree`\, n. The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. --Tennyson.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The primary beam of a roof, ridgepole; hence, the roof. (from 14th c.) 2 (context figuratively English) A home; household.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rooftree is a 1967 Swedish drama film directed by Jörn Donner . It is based on Sivar Arnér 's 1963 novel Tvärbalk .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a beam laid along the ridge of a roof; provides attachment for upper end of rafters [syn: ridge , ridgepole ]
Usage examples of rooftree.
The shed itself looked as if it had encountered a giant with a chainsaw who had sawed it neatly in half, right along the rooftree, leaving it with the same three-wall construction favored by dollhouses everywhere.
Their voices filled the hail from hearthstone to rooftree, and I trembled inside myself: Llew, the name of Albion's savior, was now my name.
Then, quick as a blink, they stopped, spun around, stooped, and each seized her sword by the hilt and lofted its point to the rooftrees above, shedding the tops of their mantles in the same motion.
But the ships had brought less welcome things: heresies, treasons, rebellions, warand, at the end, a mad stranger out of the stars, who had set the all-powerful Lords Protector fleeing down the roads of Skaith away from their burning rooftree, homeless as any Farers.