NOUN
- a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters
How To Use ridgepole In A Sentence
- The mikko descended wooden stairs from his steep-roofed palace, its ridgepole adorned with sculptures of ivory-billed woodpeckers. Fire The Sky
- It was usually bolted through a beam, or the ridgepole in some cases. DOLL'S EYES
- Sculptures of Falcon and Rattlesnake adorned the ends of the soaring ridgepole, as if to threaten the Sky World itself. Fire The Sky
- Covering an area of about 1,000 square metres, it was richly ornamented with carved beams and painted ridgepoles.
- I have a wife for you — nay, two wives, for your days are short and I shall surely live to see you hang with my fathers from the canoe-house ridgepole. CHAPTER XVIII
- I made opening so I could slide the ridgepole (carefully!) through the tent rather than hanging it from the ridgepoles. Wall tents
- None of the traditional carved totems rose from the ridgepole. Fire The Sky
- From there he gained the roof of a chicken-house, passed over the ridgepole and dropped to the ground inside. The God's Domain
- We passed one of the elaborate clan houses, this one festooned with magnificent raccoon carvings; one was seated atop the ridgepole over the doorway, his forepaws dangling. Fire The Sky
- It was usually bolted through a beam, or the ridgepole in some cases. DOLL'S EYES