house top

See also: house-top and housetop

English

Noun

house top (plural house tops)

  1. Alternative form of housetop.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:27, column 2:
      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.
    • 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)
      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
    • 1935, Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men:
      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.
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