rooftree
roohf tree
- n 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
- Thereupon they snatched a stork from a good citizen's rooftree, colored it red like their flags, set it free.
- Year in and year out he cleaves to the original wife of his pouted bosom, rearing family after family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or .
- Faith nurses his crippled father under the old rooftree, moving about the house "like a restless fire.