Roofy: alternatives and connections

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fractu…

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.

Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in t…

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Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old…

A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are…

A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc.

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…

Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandel…

Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers…

One who puts on roofs.

Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.

A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and so…