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Definition of Hip roof
1. Noun. A roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides.
Definition of Hip roof
1. Noun. A roof formed from inclined, planar ends and sides, joined at their edges to form hips, the longer sides forming a ridge at the top ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hip Roof
Literary usage of Hip roof
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive Geometry by Gardner Chace Anthony, George Francis Ashley (1909)
"To determine the bevels for the correct cuts, the lengths of hip and jack rafters,
and the bevels for the purlins for a hip roof. Fig. ..."
2. Farm Buildings by William Arthur Foster, Deane G. Carter (1922)
"The hip roof slopes from all four walls to the center, meeting in a point or ...
Sometimes the hip roof has a deck at the top, instead of a ridge. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Hippodamus was probably from Miletus in HIP: ROOF WITH FOUR HIPS, ... For roofs
built with hips, see hip roof, Hipped Roof, under Roof. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry, and Building: A General Reference by American Technical Society (1917)
"175, with a hip roof instead of a gable roof. ... 175, will be the same as the
slope of the end of the main hip roof, and so the lower part of the line G, ..."
5. Farm Buildings: A Compilation of Plans for General Farm Barns, Cattle Barns by Sanders Publishing Co. (Chicago, Sanders Publishing Co. (Chicago) (1911)
"A, B, D, E and F show the outline of a hip roof, the lower rafters of which are
full pitch. They rise at an angle of about 63°. ..."
6. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"The hip-roof«! palate. Fig. 253.—The asymmetrical palate. frequency of the
pathological palate among marked degenerates, ..."
7. A Treatise on Design and Construction of Roofs by Nathan Clifford Ricker (1912)
"OCTAGONAL hip roof WITH LANTERN 266. Description.—This roof has the form of an
octagonal pyramid over an octagonal room, and it has an octagonal lantern at ..."
8. Descriptive Geometry by Gardner Chace Anthony, George Francis Ashley (1909)
"To determine the bevels for the correct cuts, the lengths of hip and jack rafters,
and the bevels for the purlins for a hip roof. Fig. ..."
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