auxiliary rafter

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a rafter reinforcing a principal rafter.

a rafter reinforcing a diagonal member of a queen post truss.

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We retooled music, which sounds sort of small and auxiliary, but I think we figured out a way to help the audience.
‘Michael J. Fox Show’ Creator: We’re Not Canceled…Yet|Kevin Fallon|February 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When she has an emotion, it just explodes out of her like one of those rafter-shaking high notes.
Kristin Chenoweth on Her Darker Role in ‘Family Weekend’|Kevin Fallon|March 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Mule strung the two women, with their consent and help, from a rafter with strategically placed soft ropes.
Europe's Dangerous Sex Craze|Barbie Latza Nadeau|September 16, 2011|DAILY BEAST
None of this will be easily accomplished, and America has only an auxiliary role.
How the U.S. Will Lose Egypt|Geoffrey Wawro|January 31, 2011|DAILY BEAST

General Monet operated in the north against the rebels with Spanish and native auxiliary forces.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The stars were auxiliary lights, and had all been specially, and at the same time, created for the good of man.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
A man had come to stand beside it, his body screening the light of one of the lamps that hung from a rafter of the ceiling.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
In Preston we have three churches, besides an auxiliary chapel, wherein priests of the Jesuit order labour.
Our Churches and Chapels|Atticus
She behaved nobly, but with her small auxiliary steam power she could scarcely hold her own.
The British Expedition to the Crimea|William Howard Russell