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span roof

span roof noun: a common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides.

Noun

span roof (plural span roofs)

  1. A common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides.
    • Sometimes these linhays are double: the same span roof furnishing two ranges of sheds1805, William Humphrey Marshall, The Rural Economy of the West of England

Forms of span roof

pluralspan roofs

Questions about span roof

What does span roof mean?
Span roof means a common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides.
What part of speech is span roof?
Span roof is a noun.
What is the plural of span roof?
The plural of span roof is span roofs.

Words near span roof in the dictionary

  1. span blocks
  2. span counter
  3. span iron
  4. span irons
  5. span of control
  6. span roof
  7. span roofs
  8. span round
  9. span shackle
  10. span shackles
  11. span-new

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