A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 227
of, as on a buildinj; of irregular ])lan, mayhave more hips than four and often alternatingwitli valleys. ROOF gables, each of which is truncated halfway upor thereabout so that the roof is hipijcd above.It may be otherwise exiilaineil as a hippetl roof,of which the hips starting from the ridge are… … Eoof: Early English; Solar of House at Charnet, Berkshire; c. 1270; with CamberedCross Beams supporting Posts and a Purlin Plate by Direct Eesistance to Pressure;l-iTH Century. Homogeneous Roof. One in which the samemass of material furnishes the outer pitch forshedding rain water and the surface…
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