house top

plural house tops

1. alternativeAlternative form of housetop.

   What I tell you in darkeneſſe, that ſpeake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that pꝛeach yee vpon the houſe tops.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:27, column 2

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   The enclosure was encircled by a dense and perfect sea of faces. Every coign of vantage had been monopolised, windows and house tops not excepted

   1895 A description of the 1895-6 FA Cup First Round match between Southampton St. Mary's and Sheffield Wednesday at the Antelope Ground (David Bull, Bob Brunskill, Match of the Millennium, 2000)

   From the earliest rocking of my cradle, I had known about the capers Brer Rabbit is apt to cut and what the Squinch Owl says from the house top.

   1935, Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men