ridgepoles

noun

plural of ridgepole
1
as in sticks

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2
as in spines

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridgepoles
  1. beams
  2. spines
  3. piles
  4. stakes
  5. splints
  6. posts
  7. woods
  8. lumber
Noun
  • Crisp, white linens and white curtains are a striking counterpoint, with texture arriving in unfinished, stone support beams.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • For months before today’s launch, Google has been anticipating those problems on Earth, shaking spacecraft to simulate the launch and bombarding its chips with proton beams to test their response to radiation.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of beams
Noun
  • As appointed by production designer Valeria De Felice, the workspace is a literary dreamscape, lined with Persian rugs and bookcases displaying a rainbow of magazine spines.
    — Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Yellow starthistle plants are gray-green and produce yellow, thistle-like flowers with stiff, long spines in late June and July.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of spines
Noun
  • There simply wasn’t enough of either scattered across the piles, the team found.
    — Mike McRae October 06, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Nearby, the neat rows of grapevines and fig trees his family had tended for three generations had vanished under piles of rubble.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of piles
Noun
  • For Smith and others like him, competing interpretations have created a high-stakes legal limbo.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Rather than only invest in Tamboran, Sheffield bought stakes in Beetaloo Energy and Falcon Oil & Gas, which was acquired by Tamboran earlier this year.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of stakes
Noun
  • Carlos Hernández, director of LayerLab, helped organize a nationwide effort to produce splints and immobilizers after the earthquakes.
    — Tibisay Zea, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026
  • The hospital's remaining staffers got creative, making beds and crutches out of wood and using clothes instead of gauze for makeshift splints.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
Definition of splints
Noun
  • In comparison, topics that involve groundswells or are receiving authentic attention often inspire social media users to create their own posts that outperform inauthentic behavior.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Raqib Naik, the center’s founder and executive director, said that the team documented an influx of posts portraying South Asians as invaders, job thieves and a demographic threat, evoking Great Replacement theory and remigration rhetoric.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of posts
Noun
  • Local woods, leathers, natural fibres, and precious metals bring a softness that is blended with the contemporary accents Anantara is known for.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The song is about a true story of three Dutch teenage girls in World War II, during the occupation, who seduced Nazi officers and murdered them in the woods.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of woods
Noun
  • Game 3 was the first game where Cleveland actually broke out the lumber and got some runs on the board.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Nemacolin is privately owned and operated by the Hardy family, Pennsylvania natives who made their name and fortunes in the lumber industry.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of lumber
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