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ˈridge-pole
[ridge n.1 3.]
1. a. The horizontal pole of a tent.
1788A. Falconbridge Afr. Slave Trade 5 The sailors first lash the booms and yards from mast to mast, in order to form a ridge-pole. 1828J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 391 Captain's Marquee. Ridge-pole, length 6 ft. 11 in. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. xiii. 155 Tied him fast..To the ridge⁓pole of his wigwam. 1894A. Robertson Nuggets, etc. 27 The sun was..shining cheerily through the thin canvas. Three magpies were chattering on the ridge-pole.
fig.1788J. May Jrnl. & Lett. (1873) 29 We..began to ascend Alleghana... At ten o'clock we were on the ridge-pole.
b. attrib. in ridge-pole pine (see quot.).
1885Roosevelt Hunting Trips 306 The forest was composed mainly of what are called ridge-pole pines, which..do not branch out until the stems are thirty or forty feet from the ground.
2. A horizontal timber at the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are fastened. Also fig.
1814Niles' Weekly Reg. V. 322/2 At the time I left the boat the waters were about midway on the roofs of the houses generally, and quite to the ridge poles of several. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1940 The ridge pole of such a roof is made exactly like one of the main ribs of the principals. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1879) 80 They are mostly of the timber-and-plaster kind, with bowed and decrepit ridge-poles. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1332. 614 The rafters are notched on to the wall plates..at their lower end, while the upper end of each is rested against the ridge-pole. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. iii. 184 High, pine-covered peak full of echos, Proud ridge-pole of Heaven.
Hence ˈridge-poled a.
1861Russell in Times 10 July, A few ridge-poled tents, pitched under the shade of some trees. |