棟

Selected Words with Definitions from WWWJDIC

• 棟 とう place; section; building (n,n-suf) **
• 病棟 びょうとう (hospital) ward (n)
• 別棟 べつむね separate building; outbuilding; outhouse (n)
• 棟梁 とうりょう chief support; pillar (e.g. of nation); leader (n)
• 上棟 じょうとう raising the ridgepole (n)
• 棟上げ むねあげ ridgepole-raising; setting up of the framework of a house (n)
• 棟木 むなぎ ridgepole; ridge beam (n)
• 棟上げ式 むねあげしき framework raising ceremony (n)