Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pent-roof .
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Examples
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Befitting our new position as business leaders, we built a 6 × 8 shed-roof kitchen onto the back of the shack and a clothes closet in one end of it; we even bought a little cookstove with an oven in it.
Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl
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Nor did she remember any more about it until the next morning, when, seated on the shed-roof, under the overhanging boughs of a great elm, she saw Mr. Hartman striding angrily up the path to the kitchen door.
At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown
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Several times, one or more of them were on the shed-roof.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various
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Mother slid and balanced and slid on the roof, irritably observing, "I declare to goodness I never thought that at my time of life I'd have to sneak out of a window on to a nasty slippery shed-roof, like a thief in the night, when I wanted to go a-visiting."
The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918
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The corners were great stacks of high piled flat stones; across the rude columns lay tree trunks roughly squared with axes; the roof was a sloping shed-roof, steep pitched, made of saplings, covered a foot deep with loose soil.
Wolf Breed Jackson Gregory 1912
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He tiptoed to the window, climbed out, and let himself down to the shed-roof.
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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Below the window was a shed, and beyond the farther edge of the shed-roof was an alley.
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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He slid down from the shed-roof before she had time to thank him, and ran off through the darkness.
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He slid down from the shed-roof before she had time to thank him, and ran off through the darkness.
Stories of Childhood Various 1885
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She managed to get out of the window on to the kitchen-roof, then on to an adjoining shed-roof, from which she slid down to the ground in the back yard.
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