Wiktionary
n. 1 The portion of the deck raised to give increased headroom in the cabin. 2 The entire structure, including coamings.
Usage examples of "coach roof".
As I had often heard of them in the capacity of outside passengers, and had more than once seen them on the high road dangling their ironed legs over the coach roof, I had no cause to be surprised when Herbert, meeting me in the yard, came up and told me there were two convicts going down with me.
Two fellows with swords on their hips scrambled from the coach roof to follow the masked woman.
It drummed on the coach roof and streamed past the windows, and Reggie let out a yelp and a curse as a lightning bolt sizzled down with a crash far too near the road for comfort.
There was a small sliding door in the coach roof, for talking to the driver, but it was less than twenty centimeters across, hardly an escape route.
The three servants were loading our chests and the rest of the baggage on the coach roof.