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How to pronounce “rafter

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(architecture) 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.

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Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (architecture) 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.
  • (collective) A flock of turkeys.
  • [Verb]
  • (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.

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