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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A four-sided roof having sloping ends and sides.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A roof the ends of which rise immediately from the wall-plates with the same inclination to the horizon as its other two sides. Also called
hipped roof . See cut on following page.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A roof formed from inclined, planar ends and sides, joined at their edges to form hips, the longer sides forming a
ridge at the top
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides
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