Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, the end of a roof when it is formed into a shape intermediate between a gable and a hip, the gable rising about half-way to the ridge, so that it is left with a truncated shape, and the roof being hipped or inclined backward from this level. Also called
shread-head .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.
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- noun architecture The
hipped part of aroof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving atruncated gable .
Etymologies
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jerkin + head
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john commented on the word jerkinhead
Love this word. And love that there's a single solitary Flickr image for it.
March 20, 2010