a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls
A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on houses could have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones. A hip roof on a rec...
roof that slopes upward from all sides of a structure, having no vertical ends. The hip is the external angle at which adjacent sloping sides of a ... [1 related articles]
A roof that rises by inclined planes from all four sides of a building. 
A type of roof containing sloping planes of the same pitch on each of four sides. Contains no gables.A roof which rises by inclining planes from all four sides of a building.
- A roof that rises by inclined planes from all four sides of a building.
In architecture a hip roof is a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides.
[n] - a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides
Junction of two roof slopes whose eaves are perpendicular.
noun a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides
A roof which slopes from all four sides of a building. The line where two adjacent sloping sides intersect is called the 'hip'.
A roof that rises by inclined planes from all four sides of a building.
A roof where all four sides slope down towards the walls.
A roof that rises by inclined planes from all four sides of a building.
a roof with sloping ends and sides; a hipped roof. See illus. under