rafter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.

   […] the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters

2. 2
   noun

   one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

3. 3
   noun

   someone who travels by raft

4. 4
   verb

   provide (a ceiling) with rafters

5. 5
   noun

   A flock of turkeys.

6. 6
   verb

   To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.

7. 7
   verb

   To furnish (a building) with rafters.

8. 8
   verb

   To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.

Etymology

From Old English ræfter, of Germanic origin, related to the origin of raft.