Sentence examples for roof rake from inspiring English sources
noun
A long-handled tool for pulling snow off a roof.
I'll stick with my roof rake after a heavy snowstorm.
What would Yoko Ono have managed with a roof rake, or Rachel Whiteread with a melt sock?
Do the raking soon after a storm, he advised, because once the ice dam forms, a roof rake won't solve the problem.
For starters, we could get a roof rake, which is just as it sounds — an elongated rake used to remove the snow from the roof.
Roof rakes, which are used while standing on the ground, are surprisingly light and easy to handle.
All four men understood the finer points of winter home protection, but Mr. Garelick had something the others lacked, namely, access to roof rakes, which his company has been making for 40 years.
It had been a week of furious dawn-to-dark activity building a farm high above an industrial stretch of Queens: directing traffic along Northern Boulevard, hoisting truckloads of growing mix up to the roof and raking it over drainage and protective material.
It's also the glacial blue when light pierces the snow in the tractor-bucket raised against the sky, the berg-ish way the snow breaks off as I shovel, the avalanche that falls when I rake the roof.
He worked only one day, for about four hours, doing some roof repair work and raking leaves.
