Roof
Verb
Pronunciation: rU;f
Etymology: from the noun roof.
Indicative past, past participle: roofed
Present participle: roofing
Transitively
First definition: to cover with a roof
It may be approximately translated by techar, in Spanish; couvrir avec un toit, in French; coprire con un tetto, in Italian.
Antonym: to unroof
[Of market-places] These structures are generally built and roofed in a very slight and unadorned manner.
James Elmes (… dictionary of the fine arts)
***With the preposition with, before the material used as a roof:
There is a little rude hut, with walls of rough stone and roofed with sods, standing, sheltered under the rock, close by the side of the stream.
Anne Marsh- Caldwell (Castle Avon)
The greater part of [… the houses] are merely cane cottages, roofed with palm leaves, and quite open to the wind and weather.
Edward Penny (A sketch of the customs and society of Mexico)
The interior of the main building, with the exception of an apartment roofed with heavy cross timbers, is scarcely worthy of the note-book.
F. P. Palmer, Alfred Forrester (The wanderings of a pen and pencil)
***With the adverb in:
Three-fourths of the boat nearest the stern is roofed in.
John Palmer (Journal of travels…)
[…] the houses are nearly all built of wood roofed in with sheet-iron.
Henry Edwards (The Russians at home)
***With the adverb over:
The general direction of the souterrain, near the Second Pyramid, was east […]. It appeared to have contained a communication, made out of a natural fissure, and was roofed over with slabs to form a level surface.
Richard Howard (… Pyramids of Gizeh)
In the centre of the enclosure stood a kind of stage, roofed over like a house, and on it were laid several small canoes.
Richard Cruise (Journal… New Zealand)
Second definition: (of a roof) to be or form a roof over (something or someone)
As he lay staring up through the thorny mesquite branches that roofed him inadequately from the dew he marveled mightily.
Rex Beach (Heart of the sunset)
Third definition: (of a person) to receive into a roofed house; to house
