roof tree

== English == === Alternative forms === rooftree roof-tree === Etymology === From roof +‎ tree. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -iː === Noun === roof tree (plural roof trees) (archaic) The ridgepole of a peaked roof, especially that of a house. (figurative) By extension: a peaked roof, especially of a house; by further extension: a house, a dwelling structure, a building used as a home. MORTGAGES-THE GENESIS OF THE LIEN THEORY, BY William H. Lloyd; Yale Law Journal, Volume 32, Article 3 "Everyone is supposed to know what a mortgage is. With most the experience is personal; in the course of a generation few roof trees avoid this affliction."