Dictionary Entry
rafter
rafter is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A raftsman. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A raftsman.
- 2noun
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.
- 3transitive verb
To make into rafters, as timber.
- 4transitive verb
To furnish with rafters, as a house.
- 5transitive verb
To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
- 6noun
one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- 7noun
someone who travels by raft
- 8verb
provide (a ceiling) with rafters
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