ridgepole

• He found her squatting on the ridgepole, three stories above the street. —  FSF,October2007
• The central structure was rectangular, with a tower at each corner and one at the center of each of the long sides; the main roof was steeply sloped, so that the ridgepole was almost even with the tops of the surviving towers. —  With A Single Spell
• The tape slipped quietly from one spool to the other More-pork Startling and clear as if the owl called from the ridgepole, the second note a minor step up from the first. —  Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh
• The pediment with its ridgepole, principal rafters, and purlines are to be built in such a way that the eaves shall be equivalent to one third of the completed roof CHAPTER VIII CIRCULAR TEMPLES AND OTHER VARIETIES 1. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
• My next excursion, so the family traditions aver, was to Uncle Peter's, the nearest neighbor, the oracle of the community for all signs, omens and country folk-lore, who, taking me in his arms, carried me to the attic of his house and touched my head to the ridgepole: "What did you do that for?" —  Confessions of Boyhood

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