roof tree

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Etymology

From roof +‎ tree.

Pronunciation

Noun

roof tree (plural roof trees)

  1. (archaic) The ridgepole of a peaked roof, especially that of a house.
  2. (figurative) By extension: a peaked roof, especially of a house; by further extension: a house, a dwelling structure, a building used as a home.
    • MORTGAGES-THE GENESIS OF THE LIEN THEORY, BY William H. Lloyd; Yale Law Journal, Volume 32, Article 3
      "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."