Eaves
eaves (eevz) noun:
Overhanging edge of a roof.
Wordsmith.org's word of the day. I'm surprised to see a word list in its plural--why not "eave?" Can one not have a single eave, but only eaves?
The overhanging edge of a roof, in any case, is a scary place. There lives spiders, whole generations of spiders that live and die in their own eaved universe. Perhaps a hurricane passes through via a garden hose, and the squnch up close and frantic in the corners and indentations, the survivors rebuilding in quiet and damp peace, not speaking of the ones lost.
My great-grandma's house had those kinds of eaves. Playing on the dark side of the house, an alley-ish strip between brick and overgrown fence, you could look up and see the underside of eaves never touched by hurricane hoses, or brooms or harsh wind. I would not want to put my hand up in those shadows.
Overhanging edge of a roof.
Wordsmith.org's word of the day. I'm surprised to see a word list in its plural--why not "eave?" Can one not have a single eave, but only eaves?
The overhanging edge of a roof, in any case, is a scary place. There lives spiders, whole generations of spiders that live and die in their own eaved universe. Perhaps a hurricane passes through via a garden hose, and the squnch up close and frantic in the corners and indentations, the survivors rebuilding in quiet and damp peace, not speaking of the ones lost.
My great-grandma's house had those kinds of eaves. Playing on the dark side of the house, an alley-ish strip between brick and overgrown fence, you could look up and see the underside of eaves never touched by hurricane hoses, or brooms or harsh wind. I would not want to put my hand up in those shadows.
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