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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