overroof

English

Alternative forms

  • over-roof

Etymology

From over- +‎ roof.

Noun

overroof (plural overroofs)

  1. A roof constructed above another roof.
    • 1988, Old-House Journal, volume 16, number 5, page 51:
      Our contractor came to us fresh from putting an overroof (raised on 2 x 4 furring) on another old stone house. That house had had a standing-seam metal roof to which someone had stuck foam insulation; replacing the metal would have meant sacrificing the insulation.

Verb

overroof (third-person singular simple present overroofs, present participle overroofing, simple past and past participle overroofed)

  1. (transitive) To construct a roof above (an existing roof or structure).
  2. (transitive, poetic) To cover like a roof.

Adjective

overroof (comparative more overroof, superlative most overroof)

  1. Conducted over rooftops.
    • 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “What Happened in the Rue Maule”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 40:
      For a square or two he ran swiftly; then he turned into a little all-night café and in the lavatory removed the evidences of his over-roof promenade from hands and clothes. When he emerged a few moments later it was to saunter slowly on toward his apartments.
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