RAFTER meaning: Horizontal beam supporting a roof

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word rafter:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

rafter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rafter: Merriam-Webster
rafter, rafter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
rafter, rafter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
rafter: Collins English Dictionary
rafter: Vocabulary.com
Rafter, rafter: Wordnik
rafter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Rafter, rafter: Wiktionary
rafter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
rafter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
rafter: Infoplease Dictionary
Rafter, rafter: Dictionary.com
rafter: Online Etymology Dictionary
rafter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Rafter (band), Rafter (disambiguation), Rafter (name), Rafter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Rafter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
rafter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
rafter: Rhymezone
rafter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
rafter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
rafter: FreeDictionary.org
rafter: Mnemonic Dictionary
rafter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

RAFTER: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

rafter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

Rafter (offensive): Racial Slur Database
Rafter: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)

Rafter: Construction Glossary
Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.
▸ noun:  (collective) A flock of turkeys.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To furnish (a building) with rafters.
▸ verb:  (UK, agriculture) To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.
▸ noun:  A raftsman.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

balk, baulk, jack rafter, rake, ridgepole, ridge beam, blade, raftsman, firms, purlin, more...

Opposite:

joist, beam, plank, board, slab

Types:

king post, queen post, principal, common, crown, more...

Phrases:

common rafter, hip rafter, valley rafter, jack rafter, principal rafter, more...

Adjectives:

common, principal, first, main, trussed, short, last, hip, second, sedgwick, false

Colors:

brown, gray, green, red, black, more...