Covered or roofed with thatch.

High; steep. Obsolete.

thatched.

Having the form of a vault; arched or rounded. Of a roof or ceiling, etc.

Covered or tiled with shingles; in first quot., ? having the outer timbers overlapping like tiles, clinker-built.

Covered with slate or slates. Used predicatively and attributively

(un-, prefix1 affix 2.)

= high-pitched, adj.

Instrumental, as slate-floored, slate-formed, slate-hung, slate-pointed, slate-roofed, slate-spired, slate-strewn; slate-thatcher.

having a killesse.

Architecture and Building. Of a roof, skylight, etc.: having or characterized by a hip or hips (hip, n.1 2a). Cf. hip roof, n.

Covered with pantiles.

Of a roof: having a greater than ordinary pitch; having an excessive slope.

Set at an insufficient angle; having too little pitch.

Of a roof: having a relatively slight slope; (of a house) having this type of roof. Also of a room: having a low ceiling. Cf. pitch, n.2 2a, later pi…

Of a roof: sloped. Cf. pitch, v.2 16c.

thatched.

Of a pitched roof: rising to a sharp vertex.

passing into adj. = (a) consisting of, covered or built with, shingles, as shingle house, shingle roof; (b) used in making shingles, as shingle ma…

= thatchless, adj.

thatched.

Not fitted or covered with laths. Cf. lath, n. 1a lath, v.

Of a roof: having the lower portion at a different angle from the upper. Also elliptical as n. U.S. ? Obsolete.

Covered with shingles or wooden tiles.

That has or forms a saddleback (in various senses of the noun). Cf. saddle-backed, adj.

Covered with tiles in imitation of scales.

Of a roof: with two sides, each of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Of a building: provided with a gambrel roof; gambrel-roofed. Cf. g…

Abounding in thatch; like thatch. Also in combinations.

(cf. weather-tiled adj.).

Having the thatch of the roof missing or destroyed.

covered with overlapping tiles.

Building. Of a roof: having a single uniformly sloping surface. Of a building: having such a roof.