Rafter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who travels by raft.
  • n. One of the sloping beams that supports a pitched roof.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
  • n. flock of turkeys
  • v. To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
  • v. To furnish (a building) with rafters.
  • v. To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A raftsman.
  • n. 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. See Illust. of queen-post.
  • v. To make into rafters, as timber.
  • v. To furnish with rafters, as a house.
  • v. To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In building, one of the beams which give the slope of a roof, and to which is secured the lath or other framework upon which the slate or other outer covering is nailed.
  • n. Same as carline, 2.
  • n. In anatomy, a trabecule or trabeculum: as, the rafters of the embryonic skull.
  • To form into or like rafters: as, to rafter timber.
  • To furnish or build with rafters: as, to rafter a house.
  • In agriculture, to plow, as a piece of land, by turning the grass side of the plowed furrow on a strip of ground left unplowed.
  • n. One who is employed in rafting timber, or transporting it in rafts, as from a ship to the shore.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. provide (a ceiling) with rafters
  • n. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
  • n. someone who travels by raft
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    furnish    provide    supply    render    beam   
    Variant
    queen-post   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    raftsman    ridge    beam    principal    couple   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    after    drafter    hereafter    laughter    thereafter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    plank    girder    shingle    planking    woodwork   
     
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