隅すみ棟むね

noun

hip (of roof)

Technical architecture term for the external angle where two sloping roof surfaces meet, forming a ridge from the corner of the building to the ridge.

• 隅すみ棟むねは、寄よせ棟むね屋や根ねの四よ隅すみに現あらわれる斜ななめの稜りょう線せんです。

  The hip is the diagonal ridge that appears at the four corners of a hipped roof.