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noun

Rafter n. A raftsman.

Rafter n. (Arch.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. "(Courtesy) oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls."

verb

Rafter v. t.

To make into rafters, as timber.

To furnish with rafters, as a house.

(Agric.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge. (Eng.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rafter" Quotes from Famous Books

... house of God!" thundered Mr. Shorto-Champernowne, with tones so resonant that they woke rafter echoes the organ itself had never roused. "Silence, and cease this sacrilegious brawling, or the consequences will be unutterably serious! Let those involved," he concluded more calmly, "appear before me in the vestry after divine service ...

— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... to do over the interior of the old house, however, Uncle Jabez protested. The house and mill had been built a hundred and fifty years before—if not longer ago. It was sacrilege to touch a crooked rafter or a hammered nail of the ...

— Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence - The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands • Alice B. Emerson

... across the ocean came - Shoddy that can the eye bewilder And makes me blush to meet a builder! Had this good house, in frame or fixture, Been tempered by the least admixture Of that discreditable shoddy, Should we to-day compound our toddy, Or gaily marry song and laughter Below its sempiternal rafter? Not so!' the ...

— Moral Emblems • Robert Louis Stevenson

... burn'd are roof and rafter, And they hang begrimed and black; And stair, and hall, and chapel, Are turn'd to dust ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various

... flames had now surmounted every obstruction, and rose to the evening skies one huge and burning beacon, seen far and wide through the adjacent country. Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter; and the combatants were driven from the courtyard. The vanquished, of whom very few remained, scattered and escaped into the neighboring wood. The victors, assembling in large bands, gazed with wonder, not unmixed with fear, upon the flames, in which ...

— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

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