Crossword-Solution: RIDGEPOLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ridgepole | n. | The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “RIDGEPOLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Beam at a roof's peak | 1 answer |
| TENT support, central | 1 answer |
| timber along the ridge of a roof, to which the rafters are attached | 1 answer |
| Roof timber | 2 answers |
| Rafter support | 3 answers |
| Part of a roof | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with RIDGEPOLE (5)
Garlands of these, arranged close together, were stretched across the streets from ridgepoles to ridgepole, and your jinrikisha whisked you through interminable arbors of soft illumination.
Thenceforth the Annos had feared the thorns too greatly to dare again, although ever their vindictiveness smouldered and they lived in hope of the day when Nalasu's head should adorn their ridgepole.
This venerable edifice is covered by one of those vast roofs with four sides, a ridgepole decorated with leaden ornaments, and a round projecting window on each side, such as Mansart very justly delighted in; for in France, the Italian attics and flat roofs are a folly against which our climate protests.
Every morning he would leap at daylight from a fir tip to my ridgepole, run it along to the front and sit there, barking and whistling, until I put my head out of my door, or until Simmo came along with his axe.
Don't he look ridiculous, sitting up there a-straddle of his ridgepole, with a tin-cup? A tin-cup, if you please.
Quotes with RIDGEPOLE (1)
Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).