housetop

noun

Etymology: From house + top.

1. The roof of a house.

   “26 Feare them not therefore: for there is nothing couered, that shall not be reueiled; and hidde, that shall not be knowen. 27 What I tell you in darkenesse, that speake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that preach yee vpon the house tops.”

   “Up on the housetop, reindeer pause. / Out jumps good old Santa Claus.”