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rafterings

rafterings is the plural of raftering.

Meaning of raftering

Noun

raftering (countable and uncountable, plural rafterings)

  1. (UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).
    • It is nearly the same thing on stubble land as raftering is on grass land.1849, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia
  2. The set of rafters (sloped beams) of a building or similar construction.
    • A simple and very primitive mode of connecting rough rafterings, where all the strength seems to be depending on a pin, is given by Fig. 9.1883, The Building News and Engineering Journal - Volume 45, page 445

Questions about rafterings

What is rafterings the plural of?
Rafterings is the plural of raftering.

Words near rafterings in the dictionary

  1. rafter
  2. rafter snapper
  3. rafter snappers
  4. raftered
  5. raftering
  6. rafterings
  7. rafterless
  8. rafters
  9. Raftery
  10. Rafterys
  11. raftilose

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