单词 | to hip off |
释义 | > as lemmasto hip off 2. transitive. Architecture. To form (something, esp. a roof) with a hip or sloping edge; to give a hip to. Often (and in earliest use) in to hip off: to finish off with a sloping edge. Cf. slightly earlier hipped adj.1 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > form with sloping edge hip1669 1669 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 557 The roofe..to be made after the best manner hipt of. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 13 The front of each Pier is hip'd of. 1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 358 Both flanks..at their north and south ends are hipped off from the ridge of the roof to the eaves on each side. 1849 J. Fergusson Hist. Inq. True Princ. Beauty in Art I. i. ii. 373 It is probable that the Greeks might have concealed..such a form externally..by hipping the roof. 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. vii. 346 A very steep tiled roof, hipped all ways. 1908 J. B. Robinson Archit. Composition ix. 87 The end gables were discarded and the roof was hipped to make it harmonize..with those of the oriels and veranda. 1999 Archaeol. Jrnl. 156 118 The roof was hipped off at both ends..suggesting there were no upper chambers over the end rooms. < as lemmas |
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