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roofful

roofful noun: a quantity that sits on a roof.

Noun

roofful (plural rooffuls)

  1. A quantity that sits on a roof.
    • Every hut had the same accessories — a bedraggled woman and a tangle of children on the mud floor, a roofful of vultures and a great pile of the most beautiful pearl shells drifted like snow against the house.1936, Animal Kingdom - Volume 39, Issues 2-5, page 134
    • The Lyndonville, Vermont, house that Rodale's New Shelter March 1983 cover hailed as a new generation in solar technology is a new home, designed from the ground up for a roofful of active water collectors heating a concrete floor slab, which then passively heats the house.1984, Daniel Stephen Halacy, Carol Hupping, Home Energy: Your Best Options for Solar Heating Cooling, Wood, WInd, and Photovoltaics, page 158

Forms of roofful

pluralrooffuls

Origin of roofful

From roof + -ful.

Questions about roofful

What does roofful mean?
Roofful means a quantity that sits on a roof.
What part of speech is roofful?
Roofful is a noun.
What is the plural of roofful?
The plural of roofful is rooffuls.

Words near roofful in the dictionary

  1. roofed over
  2. roofed turtle
  3. roofed turtles
  4. roofer
  5. roofers
  6. roofful
  7. rooffuls
  8. roofgarden
  9. roofgardens
  10. roofie
  11. roofied

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