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noun

rafter

CEFR B2

one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

In a sentence

Six example sentences with rafter, each labelled with its topic.

  • A hidden steel plate joins each rafter to the ridge so the barn carries a winter of snow without sagging.

    Architecture

  • The novel opens with a boy hiding among the rafters, listening to the auction that will empty the farmhouse.

    Literature

  • The camera drifts up from the dance floor to a lone rafter where the projectionist has hidden his ladder.

    Movies

  • Carpenters cut each rafter of the tithe barn in 1290, and the oak still carries the roof seven centuries later.

    History

  • A colony of bats hangs from the rafters of the old church, so the roof repairs wait until the pups can fly.

    Environment

  • Her retired jersey hangs from a rafter above the court, the first number the college ever lifted up there.

    Basketball

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