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Rooftree

//ˈɹuːftɹiː// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters wordnet
  3. 3
    A home; a household. figuratively

    "[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."

Etymology

From roof + tree.

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