Ridgepole is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RIDGEPOLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured, also RIDGETREE
• the horizontal timber or member at the top of a roof, to which the upper ends of the rafters are fastened.
• timber along the ridge of a roof, to which the rafters are attached
• The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the highest horizontal timber in a roof against which the upper ends of the rafters are fixed

Words related to RIDGEPOLE

ridgepoles14 ridgetree11 rooftree11

Words that contain RIDGEPOLE

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How to use RIDGEPOLE in a sentence

• Only the ridgepole of Avernus was visible from the level upon which Bedlam stood, all the rest of it being hidden by the high rocks which surround it.
• As the hay got higher up in the mow, beyond the eaves, and almost up to the level of the topmost beam, one of the farm hands noticed the little bat hanging under the ridgepole.
• In front of a rambling old barn, which was silvered by the crescent that hung over its ridge-pole, stood the chariot, and at its door, with Mr.
• Many a scalp hung to the ridgepole of his lodge and many a bear and wildcat had he slain at great risk to his life.
• It went up to a sort of peak, and was about as handy to pack things on as the ridge-pole of a roof.
• He sat with his back against a great post which ran from ground to ridge-pole, and, without the least warning, he felt that it was shaking very slightly.
• Perched on the ridge-pole of the big barn, they rested and visited and heard all the news.
• The forest was composed mainly of what are called ridge-pole pines, which grow close together, and do not branch out until the stems are thirty or forty feet from the ground.
• The provisions were piled up nearly to the ridgepole at the back.
• I should not have been much more surprised to see Halicarnassus soaring over the ridge-pole.
• Again the sharp whack of the axes cut out a ridgepole and two forked supports.
• The ridge-pole of the poorer houses is so low that a man of even small stature could not stand up under it.
• Then and there Prescott stood up in the low-ceilinged tent and tossed his campaign hat up to the ridgepole.
• From this ridge-pole to the eaves of the house were placed a number of small poles or rafters, secured at each end by fibres of the cedar.
• For roofing, a heavy ridge-pole was cut the length of the room, resting on stout upright posts.
• The tent, twelve feet by twenty, and eleven feet high at the ridgepole, with six-foot walls, was their greatest single treasure.
• The lightning ran along the ridge-pole, then down into the tent and out at the sides along the ground.
• The master was now on the ridge-pole of the school-house.
• They camped by night close beside the murmuring water, ate their supper beside a fire of boughs, slept on piled leaves beneath a tent of canvas stretched over a long ridge-pole.
• Hsue Sun then threw his chalice on the ridgepole of the room, causing it to be whirled into the air.
• The rafters, crossed at the top, were tied along the ridge-pole with the fibres of creepers or wistaria vines.

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