Roof″tree′ (?), n. The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.
Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. Tennyson.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.