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

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

Drafted :: Drafted (imp. & p. p.) of Draf.

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..

Couple-close :: Couple-close (n.) A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam..

Grafter :: Grafter (n.) The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.

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

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

Ashlering :: Ashlering (n.) The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2..

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

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them..

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

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..

Tiebeam :: Tiebeam (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof..

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

Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..

Purline :: Purline (n.) In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters..

Lath :: Lath (n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used..

Firms :: Firms (a.) The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together..

Rafter :: Rafter (v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.

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