Beams that support a roof

Usage examples of rafters.

She said nothing, just turned and left, and opened another door, stepping into a sitting room which rose right up into the peak of the eaves, with rafters running down, and a window that stretched almost the height and width of the room.

It was dark on the landing, and she had to open the door to gain enough light and to get to the edges, but Isaac worked solidly anyway, not speaking, just chipping out more grooves, running cables, edging past her as he came through the doorway, and on up the ladder into the loft, drilling holes through all the ceilings, and along the rafters in the large room for the cables to feed through.

She looked at the latest figures, then back at the view, then up at the rafters, then at the north wall.

Wednesday the skies had cleared and Kate, standing at the very top of the stepladder and stencilling at the apex of the rafters, paused, blowing her hair upwards, easing her shoulders.

A group of school children tromping along the riverside waved and shouted and held up crayfish for the rafters to have a look at.

Almost a week had passed without adventure, though that was all right with all three of the rafters, all four if you include Ahab, who had taken to sleeping most of the day atop the sailcloth hi the hold.

The whole thing creaked woefully as if warning the rafters that it had had enough.

The weight of the four rafters as they scrambled aboard caused the raft to settle onto solid ground, there being only a few inches of water below.

Once the stern swung about and scraped across a bar, but the three rafters were alerted to the danger and immediately poled their craft away.

The rafters waved at him, and he raised his axe in the air by way of returning the greeting.

The gray dawn broke without incident, and the rafters awoke to find themselves wet with foggy morning dew and passing the scattered grove of an outlying farm.

A fog-horn moaned somewhere in the distance, and it was apparent to the rafters that the boats out on the river were becoming few, and those still out were hurrying away toward port.

If the rafters would condescend, he said, to stay at the old Mooneye for a day or two to rest up, then no one would worry about business of any sort until the day after tomorrow.

As he strode near, he hailed the elves and rafters and squinted at the lot of them through a pair of spectacles that made his eyes look as if they were being seen through a telescope.

Enormous wheels of cheese hung from the high rafters, some wrapped in gauzy cheesecloth, some covered in coatings of wax and wound round with rope, some encasedr in great crystals of rock salt.