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rooftree


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rooftree  \Roof"tree`\,  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.  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rooftree 
  n  :  a  beam  laid  along  the  ridge  of  a  roof;  provides  attachment 
  for  upper  end  of  rafters  [syn:  {ridge},  {ridgepole}] 




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