false roof

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false roof

A ceiling, esp. in an upper room or garret, which is shaped like a roof but is separated from the roof by a dead-air space.

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Equally fruitless was the next night and the next but, finally on September 3, at 11pm, six men, carrying a long plank to access the false roof, made their way to the school.

How police got the better of the Wibsey gang after cloth heist; IN THE SECOND PART OF A THREE-PART SERIES ON 19TH CENTURY POLICEMEN PROF DAVID TAYLOR, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, RECALLS THE INDEFATIGABLE THOMAS HEATON AND THE LONGWOOD WAREHOUSE THEFT OF 1856

Scaffolding is now being put up to cover the interior and exterior, and a false roof will be erected, ready for experts to remove the original roof and examine the full extent of the damage.

Repair bill for church will top pounds 600,000; Death-watch beaten: Parishioners unite to drive beetles from Wren landmark

"In one instance, we stopped a Range Rover driven by two women which had a false roof. The inside was lined with bundles of pounds, dollars and Dutch guilders.

GANGS SMUGGLE DRUGS HIDDEN IN LAGER CANS; pounds 2m heroin and cocaine haul seized

Lee Bourn, 39, died after falling through a false roof at the Lighthouse community centre in Oakfield Road, Anfield, where he was working as a volunteer in February 2010.

FALL BUILDER DIDN'T READ INSTRUCTIONS; Man died after plunging 30 feet through ceiling

"When we came here the room had a false roof and you couldn't see any of the beams.

Manor house with a most remarkable `top'

The cannabis was part of a cache worth pounds 2million which was smuggled over from France in the false roof of a Ford minibus.

Pub drugs ring jailed

Not surprisingly, it needed its false roof and windows on one side as a sort of disguise in the troubled years that followed.