- (v.t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.
- (v.t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
- (n.) A raftsman.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To make into rafters, as timber.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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