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Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called the balks..

Ridgepole :: Ridgepole (n.) The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured..

Substituted :: Substitute (n.) a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.

Heel :: Heel (n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping..

Rafter :: Rafter (v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber..

Ancone :: Ancone (n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter..

Rafted :: Rafted (imp. & p. p.) of Raf.

Pippin :: Pippin (n.) An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.

Plate :: Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

Composite :: Composite (v. t.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital..

King-post :: King-post (n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post..

Rifter :: Rifter (n.) A rafter.

Grafted :: Grafted (imp. & p. p.) of Graf.

Ingrafted :: Ingrafted (imp. & p. p.) of Ingraf.

Smoky :: Smoky (superl.) Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The principal rafters of a roof.

Grafter :: Grafter (n.) An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.

Rafter :: Rafter (v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house..

Whipstitch :: Whipstitch (v. t.) To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land..

Rafter :: Rafter (n.) A raftsman.

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