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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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
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
Audubon is a superbly sensuous poem, full of dawns "redder than meat," and chimney smoke that "bellies the ridgepole."
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
Two were burning on the ridgepole of the Granville cabin.
From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison
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