rafter
see also: Rafter
Pronunciation Noun
Rafter
Proper noun
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see also: Rafter
Pronunciation Noun
rafter (plural rafters)
- 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.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
- […] the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters,
- A flock of turkeys.
- French: chevron
- German: Sparren
- Italian: (please verify) travetto m, (please verify) travicello (it) m, passafuori, trave, puntone
- Portuguese: caibro, viga, trave
- Russian: стропи́ло
- Spanish: viga
rafter (rafters, present participle raftering; past and past participle raftered)
- (transitive) To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
- (transitive) To furnish (a building) with rafters.
- (UK, agriculture) To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.
rafter (plural rafters)
- A raftsman.
Rafter
Proper noun
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