ridgepole.

A main timber along the ridge of a roof.

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Words that belong together

• central ridgepole
• timber ridgepole

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The central ridgepole remained visible above the open framing.

The drawing showed how the rafters met the timber ridgepole.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular ridgepole; plural ridgepoles. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: precise built-space description, structural component naming, spatial orientation, interior material description. Disciplines: fiction writing, architectural description, advanced descriptive English. Commonness: uncommon.