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Rooftree   Listen
noun
Rooftree  n.  The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. "Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rooftree" Quotes from Famous Books



... whetted helmet-hewer (1), I who oft have burnished brand, From the fray went all unwilling When Njal's rooftree crackling roared; Out I leapt when bands of spearmen Lighted there a blaze of flame! Listen men unto my moaning, Mark the ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders

... dispatched and came with fire in his hand, And Hiopa took it.—"Within," said he, "is the life of a land; And behold! I breathe on the coal, I breathe on the dales of the east, And silence falls on forest and shore; the voice of the feast Is quenched, and the smoke of cooking; the rooftree decays and falls On the empty lodge, and ...
— Ballads • Robert Louis Stevenson

... help me, it still would be effective; if it went against me, I would be just as dead. I began to think out other plans. Plans of escape were foolish. I could have crawled out of the window to the rain gutter, but before I had reached the rooftree I would have been shot. And bribing the sentry, even were he willing to be insulted, would not have taken me farther than the stairs, where there were other sentries. I was more safe inside the house than out. ...
— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis



Words linked to "Rooftree" :   saddleback, gable roof, ridge, beam



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