gable roof

English

Farmhouse with gable roof

Etymology

Compound of gable +‎ roof.

Noun

gable roof (plural gable roofs)

1. (roofing) A single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends.
   • 2009, Albert Jackson, David Day, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, Sterling, →ISBN, pages 205–:

     A gable roof is the basic design for residential roof construction. It can be made with trusses or traditional rafters. Even though building a gable roof is a lot of work, its design is the essence of simplicity: Two flat planes are joined together to form a simple peaked structure.

Related terms

• peaked roof
• pitched roof

Translations

single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: harjakatto (fi)
• German: Satteldach (de) n
• Spanish: techo a dos aguas
• Swedish: sadeltak (sv) n, kroppåstak n

Anagrams

• forgoable