"house-top" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "house-tops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "house-top (plural house-tops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "housetop"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1852 January 3, “The Drama”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and Art, for the Year 1852, number 1824, London: Reeve and Co., […], page 22",
          "text": "The pantomime scenes are well arranged, especially a view of house-tops, where a good deal of comic business takes place, ending with a wholesale slaughter of cats and irruption of bed-gowned and disturbed sleepers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, by “Kit”, “Holy Saint Claus”, in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, volume 12, page 159, column 2",
          "text": "Long, long did the child lie in her little bed, awake, listening with a throbbing little heart for the sledge bells of Saint Claus, and the sound of the reindeers’ feet pattering over the house-top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire",
          "text": "The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of housetop."
      ],
      "id": "en-house-top-en-noun-4IsJ9Day",
      "links": [
        [
          "housetop",
          "housetop#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "house-top"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "house-tops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "house-top (plural house-tops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "housetop"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English archaic forms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1852 January 3, “The Drama”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and Art, for the Year 1852, number 1824, London: Reeve and Co., […], page 22",
          "text": "The pantomime scenes are well arranged, especially a view of house-tops, where a good deal of comic business takes place, ending with a wholesale slaughter of cats and irruption of bed-gowned and disturbed sleepers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, by “Kit”, “Holy Saint Claus”, in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, volume 12, page 159, column 2",
          "text": "Long, long did the child lie in her little bed, awake, listening with a throbbing little heart for the sledge bells of Saint Claus, and the sound of the reindeers’ feet pattering over the house-top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire",
          "text": "The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of housetop."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "housetop",
          "housetop#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "house-top"
}