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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