'Hipped roof' definitions:
Definition of 'hipped roof'
From: WordNet
noun
A roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides [syn: hip roof, hipped roof]
Definition of 'Hipped roof'
From: GCIDE
- Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. --Waddell. [1913 Webster]
- Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
- Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
- Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
- Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
- Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
- Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
- To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. --Shak.
- To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. --Judg. xv. 8. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hipped roof'
From: GCIDE
- Hip \Hip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping.]
- 1. To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock). [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. [1913 Webster]
- Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip. [1913 Webster]