An unroofed shed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : an open-timbered roof. ,The Himalayas are the roof of the world. From Dictionary.com.
Rebellion the little cloisters were partly unroofed. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
Speedily he pulled down the manse and unroofed the kirk. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
The pigeon-house was twice unroofed and the paling blown down. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
On crossing the threshold we entered a vast unroofed quadrangle. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The churches of the two convents are both standing, though unroofed. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference
It had been half unroofed and the Arabs had penned sheep within the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The storm was accompanied by high winds, which unroofed scores of buildings. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
The later 60x30 feet alley tended to be free standing and typically unroofed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Many houses were unroofed and a number of smaller buildings were entirely demolished. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
The Castle Keep is now ruinous and unroofed, but the body of the house is in good repair. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
What a scene of desolation and dirt; huts and houses unroofed and everything smashed to pieces!. From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
Within two months after its reduction, the buildings were unroofed, and all the materials sold. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832] Reference
A little to the west of the house is an old ruinous chapel, unroofed, which never has been very curious. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference
During an afternoon service one Sunday a violent gale was raging which had already unroofed several barns. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
It encountered the full force of the northern track of the storm, and was unroofed, and fearfully injured. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa.] Reference
After taking a deep breath, I stepped into the building, a wood-planked passageway into an unroofed space. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Recluce]
Hudson had been capsized and driven ashore, houses had been unroofed, and forest trees split like penny canes. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
It unroofed a number of houses in the west end of the city, blew away the roofs of several cars in the Newberry. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
Near the house, at Raasay, is a chapel unroofed and ruinous, which has long been used only as a place of burial. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference
Trees were torn up, houses and barns unroofed, the fragments, in some cases, being strung along the way for rods. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890] Reference
What they now saw was a wide oblong space flagged with smooth stones and surrounded by grey pillars but unroofed. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
Again, using local materials, the screens around the unroofed showers and latrines were made of woven palm leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Coming of Age: 1939-1946] Reference
Pl. XCVI, illustrating an unroofed adobe house in Zuñi, shows several bundles of this material on an adjoining roof. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
In an incredibly short time houses were entirely unroofed, and a perfect storm of tiles rained upon the quays and streets. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
All the jungle immediately adjoining the town is cut down; many of the houses are unroofed, and all the gates are guarded. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
When Buckland arrived at the studio, he found an unroofed wooden platform, two feet off the ground, and the adjoining barn. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
They were sitting in a sort of partly unroofed outer court of the house, such as often forms the entrance to Spanish houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
The alternative atrium, if unroofed, of course, is impluviate, so constructed as to guide rainwater into an awaiting pool below. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
The opera-house was unroofed before the performance was half over, and very little of the building remained standing the next day. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
He went to work, assisted by some soldiers, and, one after another, unroofed the cottages, extending about five miles along the river. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference
On the corner of Fulton and Portland avenues, three buildings were unroofed, and the walls of the houses were sprung to the foundation. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
In a British stadium, the 'terraces' = the unroofed tiers around the football pitch should I say the 'soccer' pitch for the spectators. From Wordnik.com. [gradins - French Word-A-Day] Reference
In a British stadium, the 'terraces' = the unroofed tiers around the football pitch (should I say the 'soccer' pitch) for the spectators. From Wordnik.com. [gradins - French Word-A-Day] Reference
A man unfenced and unsheltered from the gusts of the world, which blow all in upon him, like an unroofed house; and the bitterest thing he suffers is his neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Hundreds of houses had been unroofed and thousands of acres laid waste in a single night. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference
Presently it brought me to stone uprights, with an unroofed lodge beside them, and coats of arms upon the top. From Wordnik.com. [Kidnapped] Reference
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