How to use rafter in a sentence

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• We got all the roofing removed, but the chimney was damaged and we discovered that some rafters had to be replaced. One step forward, two steps back. Or maybe three.From the entry one step forward, two steps back
• Last night was a 'rafter snapper', as my grandparents would say.2023, BracedRhombus, Reddit. From the entry rafter snapper
• "'S what the old-timers call a real 'rafter snapper'", Frank said.2018, Rick Hautala, Winter Wake. From the entry rafter snapper
• One of the most common is the use of “birdsmouths” cut into the rafter.2013, Rob Roy, “Basic Timber Frame Structure”, in Timber Framing for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction…. From the entry girt
• Nail the four straight rafters selected as the first and last into position at the birdsmouth.1995, Charles Simpson with Barry Hodgson, Building a House: Framing Practices, South Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia, →ISBN, page…. From the entry birdsmouth
• It had rafters fanning outwards from a high top, like the spokes of an umbrella.1982, Peter Somerset Fry, Fiona Somerset Fry, “Celts, Caledonians and Romans (first century BC–fifth century AD)”, in The History of…. From the entry wheelhouse
• Place the ferrule inside the gutter at bead height, lined up with the end of a rafter.1969 September, Richard Day, “How to Install Gutters and Downspots”, in Robert P. Crossley, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 132, number…. From the entry ferrule
• Drive the spike through the gutter bead, ferrule and fascia board into the rafter.1969 September, Richard Day, “How to Install Gutters and Downspots”, in Robert P. Crossley, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 132, number…. From the entry ferrule
• The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed.1953, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, New York: Bantam, published 1959, act 1, page 1. From the entry unmellowed
• Far overhead the echoes of his voice hummed on awhile among the cedarn rafters.1910, Lord Dunsany, “In Zaccarath”, in A Dreamer’s Tales,, London: George Allen, page 221. From the entry cedarn
• Most people know about the soffit boards below their fascia boards (which cap off the ends of a roof's rafters).2014 September 11, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: The dangers of abestos roofs [print version: Where can I find help – at the double?, 6…. From the entry soffit
• There are various ways of tying rafters to sidewalls, and the choices may vary depending on roof pitch.2013, Rob Roy, “Basic Timber Frame Structure”, in Timber Framing for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction…. From the entry girt
• It can be made with trusses or traditional rafters.2009, Albert Jackson, David Day, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, Sterling, →ISBN, pages 205–. From the entry gable roof
• The oldest piece in the store was a wooden-handled de-thatching rake, which was bracketed way up near the rafters.2007, Richard Satterlie, Something Bad, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry de-thatching rake
• Here is a groaner example: "Mother, get off the rafters.2005, Donald W. McCaffrey, The Road to Comedy: The Films of Bob Hope, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry groaner
• The top end was suspended from a rafter, and a long pole was placed through a loop at the bottom.1995, Autumn Stanley, Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry tipiti
• And swallows are the spring's agents, nesting in the rafters, eating, defecating, procreating, producing prodigious flocks of swallowlings.1989, Stephen Owen, Yuwen (Suo'an), Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire (page 92). From the entry swallowling
• Upstairs in a waiting room there were pikers whose tunics echoed Baudricourt′s gold lion shield painted up and down the rafters.1974, Thomas Keneally, Blood Red, Sister Rose, page 82. From the entry piker
• The under rafters are quite heavy and cut at right-angles.1970, Osvald Sirén, A History of Early Chinese Art, III-IV, page 64. From the entry splocket
• High in the rafters, a bivouac of ants swayed uneasily in the draught created by the shutting of the heavy, old, wooden door.2022, Ian D. Hall, Underneath, Beaten Track Publishing. From the entry bivouac
• Visit any Czech river during the summer, and you will find flotillas of rafters and canoeists, gleefully calling “ahoj!” to all and sundry.2021 April 28, Marcus Bradshaw, “Why do Czechs say 'ahoj'? An oddly nautical greeting for a landlocked country”, in Expats.cz. From the entry all and sundry
• Any moment now, someone is going to notice us on one of the hundreds of fish-eyed cameras built into the walls and rafters.2015, Alexandra Duncan, Sound, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry fish-eyed
• Squatting in offices and businesses, invading the rafters and airshoots of an increasingly and overly built environment — pigeons show that they can survive anywhere.2013, Joe Kerr, Andrew Gibson, London From Punk to Blair, page 187. From the entry airshoot
• The rafters were held at their lower ends on a horizontal ring of timber that rested on vertical posts with Y-shaped tops.1982, Peter Somerset Fry, Fiona Somerset Fry, “Celts, Caledonians and Romans (first century BC–fifth century AD)”, in The History of…. From the entry wheelhouse
• We stood before a gate, looking into a court enclosed by three walls and roofed by a vine on a raftered trellis.1931, William Faulkner, “Mistral”, in These 13. From the entry raftered
• A whitewater rafting excursion turned tragic when a rafter was thrown from his boat and swept downriver in New Taipei’s Wulai District on Sunday (June 4).2023 June 4, Duncan DeAeth, “One missing after rafting accident in New Taipei's Wulai”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 06…. From the entry Wulai
• Buildings include a Victorian chapel, elegant Georgiana, seventies girls’ school and a Hogwartsesque panelled dining hall, with a glitter ball still hanging from the rafters after the parents’ disco.2010, The Good Schools Guide, 15th edition, Lucas Publications, →ISBN, pages 401–402. From the entry Hogwartsesque
• Sally sat on the porch threading beans on strings to make leatherbritches, and five long strings of pods already hung above her from the porch rafters to dry.1997, Charles Frazier, “The ground beneath her hands”, in Cold Mountain, New York: Atlantic. From the entry leatherbritches
• These rafters are connected at the top by a round bar, the smoke pole, which also serves to take the hooks on which the cooking pots are suspended.1962, Ørnulv Vorren, Ernst Mauritz Manker, Lapp Life and Customs: A Survey, page 44. From the entry smoke pole
• There is the small effortless chupse of indifference; the thin hard chupse of mere disdain; the long, liquid, vibrating chupse which shakes the rafters and expresses every kind of defiance."1970, Frank A Collymore, Notes for a glossary of words and phrases of Barbadian dialect. From the entry chupse

Meaning of rafter

1. noun One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
2. noun A flock of turkeys.
3. verb To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.

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Questions about rafter in a sentence

How do you use rafter in a sentence?

Rafter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A turkey will always seek the company of another turkey, and ultimately that of the rafter.”

What is a short sentence with rafter?

“It can be made with trusses or traditional rafters.”

What does rafter mean?

Rafter means one of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.