Meanings
plural rooffuls
- A quantity that sits on a roof.
I have a shed whose roof has a gentle pitch, and this summer I'm going to grow a roofful of pumpkins and squash.
1998, Suzanne Normand Eyre, Sunset Western Gardening Annual, 1998, page 1172 more examples
Every hut had the same accessories — a bedraggled woman and a tangle of children on the mud floor, a roofful of vultures and a great pile of the most beautiful pearl shells drifted like snow against the house.
1936, Animal Kingdom - Volume 39, Issues 2-5, page 134The Lyndonville, Vermont, house that Rodale's New Shelter March 1983 cover hailed as a new generation in solar technology is a new home, designed from the ground up for a roofful of active water collectors heating a concrete floor slab, which then passively heats the house.
1984, Daniel Stephen Halacy, Carol Hupping, Home Energy: Your Best Options for Solar Heating Cooling, Wood, WInd, and Photovoltaics, page 158
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