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rooftree

/roof-tree, roof-/US // ˈrufˌtri, ˈrʊf- //UK // (ˈruːfˌtriː) //

天台树,屋顶树,屋顶的树,天台

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the ridgepole of a roof.
    • : the roof itself.

Examples

  • His rooftree was the Arizona sky, and his home the place where his adopted master camped at night.

  • For two lively years a brace of graduate students, Cherub and Seraph, folded their wings beneath the Scarab rooftree.

  • When there were always guests under the spreading rooftree of the great house, and laughter and plenty in the servants' quarters.

  • He has mair sense than to ca' anything about the bigging his ain, frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.

  • This particular rooftree was blocked ahead by the cupola, to which Jack earlier had referred.