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say it: ROOF-tree
rooftree is a noun meaning "a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters". It is pronounced /ˈɹufˌtɹi/ — ROOF-tree. It carries one recorded sense.
a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rooftree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.