A beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters.
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Examples for "ridge "
1 Four miles to the west the ridge terminated in a low point.
2 The Mid-Cayman spreading centre is an ultraslow-spreading ridge in the Caribbean Sea.
3 The blue - ridge outline was as sharp and clear as a paper cutout.
4 A a certain point I could see sun on the summit ridge .
5 Its east ridge , route of the first ascent, is long and dangerous.
1 The provisions were piled up nearly to the ridgepole at the back.
2 I shall walk that ridgepole , Diana, or perish in the attempt.
3 While I considered the question, two more weather vanes popped out of the ridgepole .
4 Along the ridgepole cautiously sidled the two men of the other company, dragging their hose.
5 Again the sharp whack of the axes cut out a ridgepole and two forked supports.
1 He never broke down a rooftree during or since the terrible famine.
2 How cross those long, shadowy fields between us and our rooftree ?
3 Chloe slipped away from them, and fluttered to a rooftree far out of reach.
4 The post carried the mighty beam that was the rooftree .
5 God listen to me, I'll hang him today, and from this puling King's own rooftree .
6 He joined the other two men astride the rooftree .
7 How thankful she is for everything, and always so happy to be under our rooftree again.
8 He was alone under his own rooftree , alone with an oppressive silence and his own thoughts.
9 In his compound, only one hut remained standing, a row of vultures perching on the rooftree .
10 Further, it produces sufficient for stores and granaries to be filled to the rooftree for years ahead.
11 She had seen a framework erected, a rooftree set, and joists and rafters and beams swinging into place.
12 The high triangle under rooftree tells what time have leaves of life and ivy to complete our climb.
13 Harvest Home. She looked up toward the rafters as though to peer beyond the rooftree to the heavens themselves.
14 Nevertheless I long day and night to see her face, and to sit beneath the shadow of my own rooftree .
15 The district was very lonely and only the rooftree of a solitary farmhouse appeared a mile or more distant to the west.
16 I could have crawled out of the window to the rain gutter, but before I had reached the rooftree I would have been shot.
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