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Meanings of span roof in English

A single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends.

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Examples for "gable roof"
Examples for "gable roof"
1
And did it have a gable roof or a lantern roof?
The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla
2
A gable roof, so like the little country cottage one keeps in a dream.
A singular man
3
It was shingled rather than clapboarded, for example, and had a steeply sloped gable roof.
A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams
4
Rice crept over the wet strip of gable roof, and entered the window after his sister.
Old Kaskaskia
5
Q. I think it is a gable roof.
The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla
1
The second floor was actually an attic with a pitched roof.
Between a heart and a rock place: a memoir
2
Down came the 1980s pitched roof added by a previous owner.
The Irish Times
3
The glass bottle was replaced with the square carton with the pitched roof.
The Irish Times
4
Above the door there is a pitched roof that is pierced with glazing.
The Guardian
5
The target house's pitched roof was immediately to its left.
NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
Usage of span roof in English
1
It was a long hall with a single- span roof, full of gleaming belts, pipes, and vats.
The Reality Dysfunction
2
Is the half-fluid resin unsuitable for the wide- spanned roofs which would have to be constructed when the diameter of the helical passage exceeded certain limits?
Bramble-Bees and Others