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- Practice the English pronunciation of rafter with real speech in context.
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- (architecture) 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.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (architecture) 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.
- (collective) A flock of turkeys.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
- (transitive) To furnish (a building) with rafters.
- (UK, agriculture) To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.
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