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

Definitions

1. noun. A raftsman.
2. noun. 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.
3. transitive verb. To make into rafters, as timber.
4. transitive verb. To furnish with rafters, as a house.
5. transitive verb. To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
6. noun. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

   Synonyms: balk, baulk

7. noun. someone who travels by raft

   Synonyms: raftman, raftsman

8. verb. provide (a ceiling) with rafters

Synonyms

balk, baulk, raftman, raftsman

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rafter:

frater

Common word forms

rafters, raftered

Words from these letters

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