Ridge A post extending from the ground or foundation to the ridge beam.

Ridge : A historic type of post and lintel framing, the ridge post carrying a supporting ridge beam.

The top ends of the rafters meet at the horizontal ridge plate or ridge beam.

There was exactly nothing we could do, after all, if we discovered that our ridge beam was not true.

He has built two homes for his wife and four children "from the footings to the ridge beam," first in Smithtown then here in Stony Brook.

In the high redoubt, two bare bulbs hanging on cords from the ridge beam shed a dusty yellow light.

Of their shelters, only the peaked ridge beams protruded into the new day.

The roof also boasts fire pots sculpted in stone and gilded metal spikes on the roof's ridge beam.

The tāhuhu (ridge beam) represents the backbone, the heke or rafters signify ribs.

Another renovation in 1964 uncovered a royal robe of King Gwanghaegun, who was responsible for the 1622 renovation, and an inscription on a ridge beam.