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rooftrees

rooftrees is the plural of rooftree.

Meaning of rooftree

Noun

rooftree (plural rooftrees)

  1. The primary beam of a roof; the ridgepole; hence, the roof itself.
    • Howsoever these things be, a long farewell to Locksley Hall! / Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall.1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 111
  2. (figuratively) A home; a household.
    • [T]he merry company flocked into the King's House, to dance again and drink tea, and make more love, and play round games, and joke, and sing songs, and eat supper under old Colonel Stafford's snug and kindly roof-tree.1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-making is Kept Up by Candle-light in the King’s House, and Lily Receives a Warning Which She Does Not Comprehend”, in The House...

Questions about rooftrees

What is rooftrees the plural of?
Rooftrees is the plural of rooftree.

Words near rooftrees in the dictionary

  1. rooftopper
  2. rooftoppers
  3. rooftopping
  4. rooftops
  5. rooftree
  6. rooftrees
  7. roofward
  8. roofwise
  9. roofwork
  10. roofy
  11. roofying

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