Rafter
['rɑːftə] or ['ræftɚ]
Definition
(noun.) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
(verb.) provide (a ceiling) with rafters.
Checker: Reginald--From WordNet
Definition
(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. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.
(v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.
(v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
Typist: Melville
Definition
n. an inclined beam supporting the roof of a house.—v.t. to furnish with rafters.—n. Raft′er-bird the spotted fly-catcher.—Principal rafter a main timber in supporting the weight of a roof.
Inputed by Leonard
Examples
- Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter; and the combatants were driven from the court-yard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Having placed our studding in position and secured them by a plate running around the top we are ready for the rafters. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I abode until roof and rafters crackled and crashed around me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There is a good room under the roof of the stables--with sloping rafters. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But I don't know how long the rafters may hold. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The thought of the rafters stirred her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He has found a red grave among the blazing rafters of his own castle and I alone am escaped to tell you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There were rafters from the torn-down floor above, lying loose on the ground--but they were too light. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was a large room, with a rough splintery floor, unplastered rafters overhead, and two bedsteads on opposite sides. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was a dim, mouldy, melancholy old room, with a low, raftered ceiling. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Checker: Selma