ridgepole
Americannoun
noun
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a timber laid along the ridge of a roof, to which the upper ends of the rafters are attached
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the horizontal pole at the apex of a tent
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Origin of ridgepole
Example Sentences
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Bill McCroskey, 78, brought the sand-colored canvas ridgepole wall tent he’d slept in during the 10-day Jamboree.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2018
Audubon is a superbly sensuous poem, full of dawns "redder than meat," and chimney smoke that "bellies the ridgepole."
From Time Magazine Archive
They also noted huge protuberances over the eyebrows and at the back of the head, an elevation like a ridgepole from front to back of the cranium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Given a boat which he does not know how to manage, he is sent to rescue a woman perched on an old cypress snag and a man clinging to the ridgepole of a cotton house.
From Time Magazine Archive
From fork to fork they placed a strong ridgepole.
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
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