wagon-roof

The interior is a small chamber with vaulted or wagon-roof ceiling, under which a man may stand upright, and at the end next the street is a little stone commemorating the place as Virgil's tomb, which was placed there by the Queen of France in 1840, and said by the custodian

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

It is an oblong room, with a low wagon-roof ceiling, under which it is barely possible to stand upright.

Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

Five or six years ago I bought an open boat, made a kind of a canvas wagon-roof over the stern of it to shelter me from sun and rain; hired a courier and a boatman, and made a twelve-day floating voyage down the

Following the Equator, Part 6 Mark Twain 1872

Five or six years ago I bought an open boat, made a kind of a canvas wagon-roof over the stern of it to shelter me from sun and rain; hired a courier and a boatman, and made a twelve-day floating voyage down the

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

-- The best is a wagon-roof awning, made simply of a couple of parallel poles, into which the ends of the bent ribs of the roof are set, without any other cross-pieces.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866