rafter
1any of a series of timbers or the like, usually having a pronounced slope, for supporting the sheathing and covering of a roof.
British Dialect. to plow (a field) so that the soil of a furrow is pushed over onto an unplowed adjacent strip.
Origin of rafter
1Other words from rafter
- raf·tered, adjective
- un·raf·tered, adjective
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2How to use rafter in a sentence
At a job in Potomac, Wersick told detectives, he tried to reach for a rafter in an attic but slipped, falling through the ceiling into the main bedroom.
Once an electrician to Potomac’s elite, a 72-year-old bank robber heads to prison | Dan Morse | October 25, 2021 | Washington PostEvery time I go out on the floor, with that name up in the rafters, you have nothing else to do except go out there and compete and play your tail off.
Dallas Needed A Spark Off The Bench. Tim Hardaway Jr. Has Been A Whole Generator. | Dorothy J. Gentry | May 28, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightJust having that honor and that privilege to play under that jersey up there in the rafters, it’s special.
Dallas Needed A Spark Off The Bench. Tim Hardaway Jr. Has Been A Whole Generator. | Dorothy J. Gentry | May 28, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightIt was a special game because Hardaway was playing in the arena where his father’s jersey hangs from the rafters — the No.
Dallas Needed A Spark Off The Bench. Tim Hardaway Jr. Has Been A Whole Generator. | Dorothy J. Gentry | May 28, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightHe signed a $170 million extension in July 2017 and declared he wanted his jersey hanging in the rafters one day.
John Wall gave the Wizards their last great memory. Then it all fell apart. | Jerry Brewer | December 3, 2020 | Washington Post
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 | THE DAILY BEASTMule strung the two women, with their consent and help, from a rafter with strategically placed soft ropes.
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 SabatiniAs one end was made fast to a rafter, it hung dangling from the window.
Frank Merriwell's Bravery | Burt L. StandishHe stalked to a rafter, ran one huge finger along it, discovered a tiny speck of dust and showed it to Franz.
Rescue Dog of the High Pass | James Arthur KjelgaardThe nest of June 28th was attached to a rafter of the front verandah of a bungalow at Lahore.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarWith this meeting we leave that Oxford before the Conquest, of which possibly not one stone, or one rafter, remains.
Oxford | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for rafter
/ (ˈrɑːftə) /
any one of a set of sloping beams that form the framework of a roof
Origin of rafter
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