span roof

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noun

a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.

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Origin of span roof

First recorded in 1815–25

Words nearby span roof

spanner, span-new, span of apprehension, span of attention, spanrail, span roof, span saw, spanspek, spansule, spanworm, spar

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How to use span roof in a sentence

Which is why you should: “Clap along, if you feel like a room without a roof.”
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We were on her roof talking and trying to come up with ideas, to think of alternatives to renting a studio.
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The two once lived together under the same roof, after Brooke asked Fenner to live with them.
Beaten By His Church for Being Gay|Justin Jones|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The human attention span is evolving in such a way that they can skip around.
Meghan Daum On Tackling The Unspeakable Parts Of Life|David Yaffe|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Some wielding signs hit the roof, windshield, and body of the car I was traveling in.
It’s Time to Hold Protesters Accountable|Ron Christie|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Pontellier and Ratignolle compartments adjoined one another under the same roof.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
First the chimneys sank down through the roof, as if they were being lowered into the cellar.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
The tower has four clock faces, pinnacles at the angles, and a steep slate roof and is 120 feet high.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Then the roof itself, with its gables and dormer windows, softly folded itself flat down upon the top of the house, out of sight.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl

British Dictionary definitions for span roof

span roof

noun

a roof consisting of two equal sloping sides

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