roof tree

English

Alternative forms

• rooftree
• roof-tree

Etymology

From roof +‎ tree.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iː

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."