roost

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  1. noun A perch on which domestic fowl or other birds rest or sleep.
  2. noun A place with perches for fowl or other birds.
  3. noun A place for temporary rest or sleep.
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  1. Middle English rooste, from Old English hrōst.

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  1. from Middle English *rost, from Anglo-Saxon hrōst, given by Somner (“hrost, al. henna hrost, petaurum, a hen-roost”), and contained also in the compound hrōst-beág, a poetical term of uncertain meaning, explained as ‘the woodwork of a circular roof’; = Old Saxon hrōst, roof, = Middle Dutch roest, a hen-roost, = Icelandic hraust, roof, ceiling, = Norwegian rost, raust, röst, roof, roofing, space under the roof; prob. orig. the inner framework of a roof (as in Scots); prob., with formative -st, from the same root (√ hro) as Icelandic hrōt, a roof, rōt, the inner part of the roof of a house where fish are hung up to dry, = Norwegian rot, a roof, the inner part of a roof, a cockloft, = Gothic (Moesogothic) hrōt, a roof. The Scots sense (def. 4) is prob. of Scandinavian origin (from Norwegian rost, see above).
  2. = Middle Dutch roesten, roost; from the noun.
 

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