Rafters
['ræftəz]
Examples
- 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.
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