overroof

plural overroofs · alternative over-roof

1. A roof constructed above another roof.

   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.

   1988, Old-House Journal, volume 16, number 5, page 51

present singular third person overroofs · participle present overroofing · participle past overroofed · past overroofed · alternative over-roof

1. transitiveTo construct a roof above (an existing roof or structure).
2. poetictransitiveTo cover like a roof.

comparative more overroof · superlative most overroof · alternative over-roof

1. Conducted over rooftops.

   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.

   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