eave

[US]/i:v/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the overhanging lower edge of a roof.
Word Forms
Pluraleaves
Past Tenseeaved

Phrases & Collocations

water eaves

projecting eaves

Example Sentences

2.Leave the cell untouch and let the cell completely cool down.

An eave trough used to convey rainwater from the roof to the downspout.

a coat that reaches to the knee; shrubbery reaching up to the eaves; a career that reached over several decades.

The manual stamping or casting is used to mold eave tile, drip tile, tile with animals, nail head and glassless window.

Rain was drumming on the roof, wind fluting in the eaves of the cottage, sea performing glissandi with the beach.

The call of lush meadow-grass, wet orchards, warm, insect-haunted ponds, of browsing cattle, of haymaking, and all the farm-buildings clustering round the House of the perfect Eaves?

Real-world Examples

Perhaps she could go along under the eaves.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

Rainwater was falling drop by drop onto my clothes from the eaves of a thatched cottage.

Source: Selected Modern Chinese Essays 1

I put it at the far west end of the office, in a corner under the eave.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

When I made my way round there I found him seated at one of the corner eaves.

Source: The Sign of the Four

Eaves are the parts of the roof that hang over the walls and shade the outside of a house.

Source: VOA Special November 2019 Collection

The rain had ceased and there was no sound except for the occasional drip of water from the eaves.

Source: Gone with the Wind

The tram almost touched the overhanging eaves.

Source: Norwegian Wood

She woke before the sun came up, in the little room beneath the eaves that she shared with Brusco's daughters.

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows (Bilingual Edition)

Shucked autumn corns hang neatly under the eaves.

Source: Appreciation of Poetry

He eavesdropped on others' talk, under the eaves.

Source: Pan Pan

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