rafter
pronunciation
How to pronounce rafter in British English:
UK [ˈrɑ:ftə(r)]
How to pronounce rafter in American English:
US [ˈræftə(r)]
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- Noun:
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- someone who travels by raft
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- Verb:
- provide (a ceiling) with rafters
Word Origin
- rafter (n.)
- "sloping timber of a roof," Old English ræftras (West Saxon), reftras (Mercian), both plural, related to Old Norse raptr "log," from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from PIE *rap-tro-, from root *rep- "stake, beam."
Example
- 1. Small vertical member supporting the principal rafter .
- 2. About where that first rafter starts .
- 3. Sometimes , to break my addiction to the tube , I spent the night in a derelict shed with mushrooms growing from the rafter boards .
- 4. He put the suffocating loneliness buried in the depths of the soul , carry the rafter if big stride in the dark night , eyes always looking out to the east , to find the heart to illuminate the future and hope of the star .
- 5. He fears to rise , convert hastily medicines of a hot or warm nature , eat hugger-mugger of and so on of rafter of bell breast , black go down , systemic float reveals the symptom with ulcer , scabies and dazed dazzled , what disease dogs and came almost .