The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
(Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
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(Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
--Waddell.Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting.
--Shak.To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly.
--Judg. xv. 8.
Wiktionary
n. A roof formed from inclined, planar ends and sides, joined at their edges to form hips, the longer sides forming a ridge at the top
WordNet
n. a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides
Wikipedia
A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.
A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on houses could have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones. A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces. They are almost always at the same pitch or slope, which makes them symmetrical about the centerlines. Hip roofs often have a consistent level fascia, meaning that a gutter can be fitted all around. Hip roofs often have dormer slanted sides.
Usage examples of "hip roof".
It was a square brick building with a hip roof and two small A dormers in front.
The split plank, horizontally arranged logs with their white chinking were quaint, especially with the red shingled hip roof, matching red shutters, and the long loggia or porch that ran across the back, facing the water.
His house was an ugly, square, two-story barracks with a hip roof and a tall brick chimney rising from its center.