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roof
Part of speech: NounThe top covering of a building; any similar top covering, as of a car or a cave.
Part of speech: VerbTo cover with, or as with, a roof.
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "roof":- But many a man of sixty is more of a son to the father gone from the earth, than he was while under his roof. - "Home Again", George MacDonald.
- Yes, said I. We must have been twenty minutes or half an hour getting the roof to rights. - "It Happened in Egypt", C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson.
- One can only just see the roof, though, and it seems some way from the creek. - "A Rogue by Compulsion", Victor Bridges.