hip-roof Arch.
[f. hip n.1 3.]
A roof having hips or sloping edges (see hip n.1 3), the ends being inclined as well as the sides; a hipped roof.
| 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v., A hip-roof has rafters as long, and with the angles at the foot, etc., at the ends of buildings, as it has at the sides. 1772 Phil. Trans. LXIII. 43 A lofty building, with a pointed hip-roof. 1886 E. L. Bynner A. Surriage xxvi. 291 A wooden structure..with a hip roof. |
Hence hip-roofed a., having a hip-roof.
| a 1834 W. Wirt Let. in J. P. Kennedy Life (1860) II. vii. 116 A small, red, hip-roofed, one-storied old house. |