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- noun An
inner orunderlying roof .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The roof met in a peak there, with a little subroof sticking out from underneath the first, framing a rectangular, three-paneled window crosshatched by white Xs.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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The roof met in a peak there, with a little subroof sticking out from underneath the first, framing a rectangular, three-paneled window crosshatched by white Xs.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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Perec climbed higher until he reached the upper lip of the wall and climbed onto a flat subroof three feet below the original winery ceiling.
Babylon Nights Daniel Depp 2010
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The sound it made was three syllabled: muzzle against subroof, discharge of compressed air, nail driven into wood—knock-sht-thwack, knock-sht-thwack—and Shawn was finding a rhythm when an explosion of air, a visible white hiss, burst from it as the clamp that fastened the hose to the back of the nail gun between his legs broke.
Freud’s Blind Spot Elisa Albert 2010
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The roof met in a peak there, with a little subroof sticking out from underneath the first, framing a rectangular, three-paneled window crosshatched by white Xs.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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Because it weighed eight pounds fully loaded, he used it more like a jackhammer than a nail gun, holding it with both hands between his legs and slamming it hard against the plywood subroof.
Freud’s Blind Spot Elisa Albert 2010
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The court ruled that Farmers Insurance Co. was not liable for paying for the damage caused to Tim and Beth Dewsnup's home after water seeped through the plywood subroof.
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Dewsnup had secured the plastic sheeting to the subroof that day he started the project in June 2006.
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Under that definition, a temporary plastic sheet covering a plywood subroof is not a roof,
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Brazosport High School's sign was torn off its brick foundation, street lights and power lines are down all around Freeport, Clute and Lake Jackson, the County Courthouse lost part of its roof (but its subroof kept it from sustaining water damage), etc.
Blog 2008
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