Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
rooftree [roof-tree, roo f-] ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of rooftree late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at roof, tree Examples from the Web for rooftree Historical Examples of rooftree
He was alone under his own rooftree, alone with an oppressive silence and his own thoughts.
Bertrand W. Sinclair
She had seen a framework erected, a rooftree set, and joists and rafters and beams swinging into place.
Gene Stratton-Porter
Elizabethan London was a musical city, and part-singing was cultivated beneath the rooftree of every well-to-do burgher.
Tom Bevan
The fire licked up the trees, and the farm, and the rooftree before their eyes.
Household stories from the Land of Hofer
R. H. Busk
Settled under their own rooftree in the golden land of California, the family for a time were measurably happy.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
Nellie van De Grift Sanchez
British Dictionary definitions for rooftree rooftree noun
- another name for ridgepole