Definitions for Rafter

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Rafter raf·ter

Spelling: [raf-ter, rahf-]

IPA: /ˈræf tər, ˈrɑf-/

Rafter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in Rafter (aefrrt).

Definitions for Rafter

noun

1. any of a series of timbers or the like, usually having a pronounced slope, for supporting the sheathing and covering of a roof.
2. a person who engages in the sport or pastime of rafting.
3. a person who travels on a raft, especially to flee a country.
4. a flock, especially of turkeys.

verb (used with object)

1. British Dialect. to plow (a field) so that the soil of a furrow is pushed over onto an unplowed adjacent strip.

Origin of Rafter

before 900; Middle English; Old English rǣfter; cognate with Middle Low German rafter, Old Norse raptr. See raft¹

Examples for Rafter

Mule strung the two women, with their consent and help, from a rafter with strategically placed soft ropes.

I'll fix the noose and jump with it from the rafter, then you can look for me!

Again Kwayū struck at him and his spear stuck in the rafter.

He took another grip on the rafter just as he would have let go.

The boy heard him but did not say a word, lying on top of a rafter.

He looked up at the rafter where his slab of bacon was always hung.

As one end was made fast to a rafter, it hung dangling from the window.

Every pole, every beam, and every rafter of the frame, is all made of hollow bamboo.

The end of the rafter is cut at right angles, so the face-board is at an angle.

A few of the slates had fallen away and exposed part of a rafter.