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
- : 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.
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