ridgepole
rooftree

The Major was short enough to stand upright beneath the ridgepole.

What an odd place, this tent with its ridgepole coming around to face me.

The word fege also means a ridgepole used to hold up a house.

After raising the second gable, we were ready to set the ridgepole.

The Hall had a cathedral ceiling forty feet high at the ridgepole.

"I knew a girl in Marysville who could walk the ridgepole of a roof."

From there he gained the roof of a chicken- house, passed over the ridgepole and dropped to the ground inside.

I always am when a ridgepole goes up.

A framework was then raised to support the ridgepole and thatching of the roof.

"A man who can skid a ridgepole into place can do anything with his team."

And when he went to look for the shivered ridgepole, he couldn't find it anywhere.

You have the ridgepole for your house, and I have one for mine.

"Our good luck is beginning today," he assured her, and his sweating over the ridgepole ceased.

I was walking the ridgepole and I fell off.

He crawled silently up the slant of the roof toward the ridgepole.

It awakened everybody, who believed the ridgepole had cracked.

The warlock crept up beside him and peered over the ridgepole.

He had nothing to do but release his grip on the ridgepole and slide down until the base of the chimney stopped him.

He peered over the farmhouse ridgepole and said, "I think they're getting ready to load.

A ridgepole was anchored in the ground at the back and supported by a pole in front.

"I don't believe anybody could walk a ridgepole.

"I shall walk that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt.

The prince took the light, excused the man, and hung the carry ring from a chain on the ridgepole.

It was constructed of planks which were leaned against a ridgepole that itself sloped to the ground.

Then the hands raised Sid until his head, wabbling on its shoulders, brushed the tent ridgepole.