Crossword-Solution: RAFTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rafter | n. | A raftsman. |
| 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. |
| Rafter | v. t. | To make into rafters, as timber. |
| Rafter | v. t. | To furnish with rafters, as a house. |
| Rafter | v. t. | To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RAFTER | anagram | FRATER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RAFTER (5)
But this time I found something at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the clapboards of the roof.
Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter; and the combatants were driven from the court-yard.
The house had entirely fallen, the walls outward, the roof in; it was a mere heap of rubbish, with here and there a forlorn spear of broken rafter.
She could walk head in air along the most precarious rafter; her hand feared neither the grossness nor the harshness of life’s web, but was thrust cheerfully, if need were, into the briar bush, and could take hold of any crawling horror.
Now the bell was just below him, and he felt the big rafter of the woodwork from which it had fallen.
Quotes with RAFTER (2)
In vain we roared; in vain we tried To rouse her into laughter: Her pensive glances wandered wide From orchestra to rafter -"TIER UPON TIER!" she said, and sighed; And silence followed after.
And anyway who the devil should I want to murder?""That would be a very good question," said Miss Marple. "I have not yet had the pleasure of sufficient conversation with you to evolve a theory as to that." Mr. Rafter's smile broadened." Conversations with you might be dangerous," he said." Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide," said Miss Marple.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 85 times in crossword archives (1959–2024).