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rufters

rufters is the plural of rufter.

Meaning of rufter

Noun

rufter (plural rufters)

  1. A loose-fitting hood for birds, used in falconry.
    • A special shelf, and the most beautiful of all, held the hoods: very old cracked rufter hoods which had been made for birds before Kay was born, tiny hoods for the merlins, small hoods for tiercels, splendid new hoods which had been knocked up to pass away the long winter evenings.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

Questions about rufters

What is rufters the plural of?
Rufters is the plural of rufter.

Words near rufters in the dictionary

  1. rufous-winged antshrikes
  2. rufouses
  3. rufousness
  4. ruft
  5. rufter
  6. rufters
  7. ruful
  8. rufulous
  9. Rufus
  10. rug
  11. rug beater

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