ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)

building

(of a building) detached

Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004

lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books