roof-mask
now rare
noun
A protective external structure which covers a ceiling or inner roof; an outer roof; (frequently with reference to Ruskin).
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in John Ruskin (1819–1900), art critic and social critic.
- Teller mine
- tellership
- teller vote
- tellicherry bark
- telligraph
- tellin
- tellina
- telling
- tellingly
- telling-off
- tellinid
- tellinoid
- tell it like it is
- tell its own tale (or story)
- tell it to the hand
- tell me about it
- tell me another
- tellograph
- tell one's beads
- tell-pie
- tell-piet
- tell someone off
- tell someone's fortune
- tell someone where to get off (or where they get off)
- tell someone where to put (or what to do with) something