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roof trees

roof trees is the plural of roof tree.

Meaning of roof tree

Noun

roof tree (plural roof trees)

  1. (archaic) The ridgepole of a peaked roof, especially that of a house.
  2. (figuratively) By extension: a peaked roof, especially of a house; by further extension: a house, a dwelling structure, a building used as a home.
    • Everyone is supposed to know what a mortgage is. With most the experience is personal; in the course of a generation few roof trees avoid this affliction.MORTGAGES-THE GENESIS OF THE LIEN THEORY, BY William H. Lloyd; Yale Law Journal, Volume 32, Article 3

Questions about roof trees

What is roof trees the plural of?
Roof trees is the plural of roof tree.

Words near roof trees in the dictionary

  1. roof tax
  2. roof taxes
  3. roof tile
  4. roof tiles
  5. roof tree
  6. roof trees
  7. roof turret
  8. roof-brain chatter
  9. roof-plate
  10. roof-plates
  11. roofage

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