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screen wall

n. (context roofing English) a nonstructural wall erected around units or curbs on a roof. Typically the framing consists of girts with a wood or metal covering attached to the frame.

Usage examples of "screen wall".

Maybe ten yards away, maybe not even that: through the interstices in the screen wall I could see the swinging of the lantern that one or other of them was carrying.

Now he looked across his office at the image of Rashid's somber, darkly bearded face on the flat screen wall display.

Carefully Tallahassee twisted it into a hard knot and then gingerly touched one endholding it as far from her fingers as she couldto the screen wall.

But not quite: it lacked not only a receptionist's desk but the customary multi-screen wall showing all of Ciel's channels of entertainment, edutainment, documentary, docu-dramas, sports, sports entertainment, news, and cooking (it was said one of the higher-ups in the organization had fixated on old footage of someone named Julia Child).

When I told her I thought that might be a good idea, she went over to the screen wall and looked out.

Things were as I had left them -- the outer screen wall slid back a bit, moonlight bright across my sleeping mat, the wind rattling the walls in its soft conversation with the mountains.

She ducked her head and hurried to a place at a nearly empty trestle set up in the back of the room near the screen wall.