Rafter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAFTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to supply with supporting beams
• To make into rafters, as timber.
• To furnish with rafters, as a house.
• To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
• provide (a ceiling) with rafters
• fit with rafters
NOUN:
• a beam forming part of the internal framework of a roof
• a person who travels on a raft.
• a lumberjack who fastens logs into a raft to transport them by water.
• one of the main beams of a roof
• A raftsman.
• Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
• someone who travels by raft
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a supporting beam

Words related to RAFTER

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Words that contain RAFTER

crafter12 drafter11 grafter11 rafters10 crafters13 drafters12 grafters12 raftered12 raftering13 rafterings14 handicrafter21 handicrafters22

How to use RAFTER in a sentence

• But before Leothric could reach him, he climbed away with his hands, going up by one of his ropes to a lofty rafter, and there sat, growling.
• Forthwith, a dozen eager hands were laid on him, a rope was passed under his armpits, and the free end thrown over a rafter of the office.
• She suffered so terribly that, one morning, Nagendra found her hanging from a rafter in his cowshed.
• Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter, and the combatants were driven from the courtyard.
• It used to be said that every stone and rafter in the Church of the Covenant had felt the touch of his prayers.
• The walls are entire, the roof is of wood, and some of the rafter work is in fair preservation.
• In that instance the iron structure was put together at the bottom of the tank, leaving the rafter ends and the mural ring.
• Suddenly the figure on the rafter gave a low whistle.
• Rafter was a skillful carpenter, having once done honest work in a Maine shipyard, so that the improvised boat was soon ready for transportation.
• A bag of corn hung from a rafter, and near it a sack of clothing, which I did not examine.
• From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home Leave thee naked to laughter, When leaves fall and cold winds come.
• Small moulded ribs divide the space between each great rafter and the longitudinal beam into sixteen panels.
• The room inside was lighted by a fist-sized chunk of lumicon, hung in a net bag of thongs from the rafter over the table.
• Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter.
• The rain and the night together Came down, and the wind came after, Bending the props of the pine-tree roof, And snapping many a rafter.
• Above, they could hear the low creak of brace and rafter and great waves of the upper deep sweeping over and breaking with a loud wash on reefs of evergreen.
• On a green hill before him stood the lofty frame of the building this evening raised, with all its white tracery of beam and rafter, a new but welcome feature in the landscape.
• A rattling window was answered by a creaking stair, a rafter groaned dismally, and the scurrying feet of mice pattered across a distant floor.
• He fixed a lasso under her arms, threw the end around a rafter, and proceeded to loosen her refractory hide.
• However, Jonas soon came to his first rafter, and this encouraged him.
• Safe in their alabaster chambers, Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, Sleep the meek members of the resurrection, Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.
• It was really a species of rafter on which the sod roof rested.
• This device is suspended from a rafter, at such a height that it can serve either as a swing or walker, as desired.
• Kills Chisel-tooth On reaching home, the archer hid his precious pill under a rafter, lest anyone should steal it, and then began the preparatory course in immortality.
• There was a pattering noise and an old woman rat poked her head round a rafter.
• Can you tell me whether it was saved? My recollection is that I had it at the time the rafter put me to sleep.

Similar words containing RAFT without suffix er

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