Crossword clues for rafter
rafter
- Supporter of Thor Heyerdal?
- Run in pursuit of sailor
- Republican following one providing support for The House
- High beam?
- Ceiling support
- Roofing support
- Home support
- White water fan
- Tennis star Patrick
- Support timber
- Sloped roof support
- Sight in an unfinished attic
- Roof support beam
- Roof slat
- Huck Finn, notably
- Finn, memorably
- Colorado conqueror
- Canyon thrill-seeker
- Whitewater enthusiast
- Part of a support system?
- Overhead supporter
- Murder : crows :: ___ : turkeys
- One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- Flock of turkeys
- Ceiling beam
- Turkey flock on the roof?
- Roof timber
- Roof beam
- Roof supporter
- Beam up?
- Roof part
- Feature of an A-frame home
- Supporter, revolutionary behind outstanding newspaper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rafter \Raft"er\ (r[.a]ft"[~e]r), n. A raftsman.
Rafter \Raft"er\, n. [AS. r[ae]fter; akin to E. raft, n. See Raft.] (Arch.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
[Courtesy] oft is sooner found in lowly sheds,
With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls.
--Milton.
Rafter \Raft"er\, v. t.
To make into rafters, as timber.
To furnish with rafters, as a house.
(Agric.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge. [Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sloping timber of a roof," Old English ræftras (West Saxon), reftras (Mercian), both plural, related to Old Norse raptr "log," from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from PIE *rap-tro-, from root *rep- "stake, beam."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 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 flock of turkeys vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make (timber, etc.) into rafters. 2 (context transitive English) To furnish (a building) with rafters. 3 (context UK agriculture English) To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge. Etymology 2
n. A raftsman.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members (beams) that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads. A pair of rafters is a couple.
Rafter is the performing name of musician and producer Rafter Roberts. He also owns his own studio, Singing Serpent, in San Diego.
In 2005 he formed the project Bunky together with Emily Joyce. The name is a combination of the words "bunny" and "monkey" while they released one album,'' Born To Be A Motorcycle ''(Asthmatic Kitty, 2005).
Rafter may refer to:
- Rafter, a structural member to support a roof deck
- Rafter, someone employed in timber rafting, i.e. the floating of timber rafts down rivers from forests to the woodyards
- Balseros (rafters), the name given to persons who emigrate in self constructed or precarious vessels from Cuba to neighbouring states
- Rafter J Ranch, Wyoming, a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States
- Operation RAFTER, a MI5 radio receiver detection technique
In culture:
- Rafters (nightclub), a nightclub in Manchester, UK
- Rafter Romance, a 1933 RKO comedy/romance film
- Packed to the Rafters, an Australian family-oriented comedy-drama television series, 2008
- Rafter's Juicy, a Dax Norman music video, 2008
- Spoon and Rafter, the fourth album by the British country rock-folk group Mojave 3, 2003
- Blue Rafters, the edition from DC Comics which protagonist is Klarion the Witch Boy
- Rafter (band), a rock band of San Diego, U.S.
- The Rafters Restaurant, opened by Jack Flavell near Wolverhampton, Wales, UK
- Rafter H Entertainment, a media company owned by actress, singer and entrepreneur Hilary Duff
In sport:
- Pat Rafter Arena, a Queensland Tennis Centre court named in honour Patrick Rafter
- Surprise Rafters, a baseball team of Surprise, Arizona, U.S.
- Wisconsin Rapids Rafters, a baseball team of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, U.S.
People:
- Rafter (name), a given name and surname
- Patrick Rafter, an Australian tennis player
Rafter may refer to:
- Charles Rafter (1860–1935), British Chief Constable of Birmingham City Police and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Jack Rafter (1875–1943), Major League Baseball catcher
- John Rafter Lee, British actor, voice actor, professional narrator
- Kevin Rafter, Irish journalist and academic
- Mark T. Rafter, American entrepreneur, speaker, author and technology consultant
- Patrick Rafter, Former World Number One tennis player
- Mrs. S. Rafter, Head Teacher of Robert May's School in the village of Odiham, Hampshire, England
- Kitty Clive (née Rafter) (1711–1785), British actress of considerable repute on the stages of London
- Henry Rafter (Born 1830), British master artist and former Headmaster of School of Arts of Coventry
- Mike Rafter, Rugby union coach and former Bristol and England flanker
- Nicole Hahn Rafter, Feminist criminology professor at Northeastern University
- Orlaith Rafter, Irish actor, novelist and playwright
- Thomas Athol Rafter (1913–1996), nuclear chemist
- Captain Seamus Rafter, (1873-1918) IRA commandant for Wexford, Ireland during the 1916 Rising
- Colonel William Rafter Died 1819 Executed in Panama following his capture at the Spanish retaking of Porto Bello, South America.
- Clifford Marle real name Patrick Cassamer Rafter Born 1885, successful actor and producer of the early 20th century, appearing in several silent films.
Name Rafter:
- Rafter Bats, artist who has taken part in a concert Gathering of the Vibes in 2001
- Rafter Roberts, musician and producer of rock band Rafter of San Diego, U.S.
Usage examples of "rafter".
Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness.
Almost immediately after Amity asked her question his fingers touched a slanting rafter.
In each I could hear the arthritic creaking of the attic rafters as the wind pushed at the gables and pounded on the roof and pried at the eaves.
The constantly increasing accumulation of pieces of machinery, big brass castings, block tin, casks, crates, and packages of innumerable articles, by their demands for space, necessitated the sacrifice of most of the slighter partitions of the house, and the beams and flooring of the upper chambers were also mercilessly sawn away by the tireless scientist in such a way as to convert them into mere shelves and corner brackets of the atrial space between cellars and rafters.
The audience would not only be full of celebs but also stacked to the rafters with casting agents, national theatre directors, top fringe theatre directors, journalists and critics.
Behind the grimy, soot-darkened facades of their houses were sumptuous palaces of fragrant cypress and cryptomeria wood, and white-plastered storehouses stacked to the rafters with chests of silks and lacquer ware and porcelain.
Smoke curdled up among the rough hacked rafters, leather flaps covered the windows.
They waited for her beneath the stairs, too, and in the rafters of the attic and behind the sofa in the living room, and they darted from sight whenever anyone entered, and they came out at night to hunt down all the humans.
His best drawing so far, done in ink and colored pencils and showing a cross section of the esophageal tract and the airways, was tacked to a rafter above the table.
But no one did, and presently John Faa reached for the closing bell and rang it hard and loud, swinging it high and shaking the peals out of it so that they filled the hall and rang the rafters.
From assisting the carpenter in hewing the rafters, to advising the masons in laying a keystone, or with his own hands mixing the mortar and tamping the earth to give firm foundation to the cement floor, he was the directing spirit.
I am told the horkey boy has already placed a branch in the rafters, as is the custom with barn building in Guthrum.
Halting in his pacing, he stared up into the rafters of the prison cell as though his Bishop hovered among them.
You might as well try to huroosh one chicken off a rafter and not scare the couple that were huddled beside it.
And when the hounds were all curled up on their straw he found a place for Lurulu, a mouldering loft in which were sacks and a few heaps of hay: from a pigeon-loft just beyond it some of the pigeons had strayed, and dwelt all along the rafters.