roof over

verb

To place a roof over an outdoor area.

Meanings

verbroof over (third-person singular simple present roofs over, present participle roofing over, simple past and past participle roofed over)

present singular third person roofs over · participle present roofing over · participle past roofed over · past roofed over

  1. To place a roof over an outdoor area.
    1 more example

    Although the extension to Crewe carried the line much nearer to the town, it was decided to retain this station, and a large enclosure there was roofed over to accommodate third class passengers (the M.B.R. was more generous than most railways in its treatment of what were then known as the "lower orders").

    1957 September 29, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 618
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