Sen. Obama, who has taught courses in constitutional law at the University of Chicago, has regularly referred to himself as a constitutional law professor, most famously at a March 30, 2007, fundraiser when he said, I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution..
Hip roof. A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid.
gambrel roof. 1. a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1). The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof. It has a gambrel roof, and is on the left when the train is going westward.