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Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.

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

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..

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

Bird''s-mouth :: Bird's-mouth (n.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States..

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

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

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

Rafter :: Rafter (n.) A raftsman.

Spur :: Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut..

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

Rifter :: Rifter (n.) A rafter.

Bargecourse :: Bargecourse (n.) A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable..

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

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

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

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

Ingrafter :: Ingrafter (n.) A person who ingrafts.

Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..

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

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