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

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

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

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

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

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..

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc..

Spar :: Spar (v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters..

Sarking :: Sarking (n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes..

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..

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

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

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

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

Rifter :: Rifter (n.) A rafter.

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..

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

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

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

Rafter :: Rafter (n.) 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..

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