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(UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge)..
It is nearly the same thing on stubble land as raftering is on grass land.
It is open to doubt whether there is any great advantage, but as it is customary in the districts where raftering is practised to use a primitive scuffler called a Brewer's drag, which is made without any means of adjusting the separate tines, ...
Raftering is another excellent process.
A simple and very primitive mode of connecting rough rafterings, where all the strength seems to be depending on a pin, is given by Fig. 9.
[…] here the white plunge of water down a wall of granite, and there, in bluer depths, a charcoal burner's hut sending up its spiral of smoke to the dark raftering of branches.
Not quite diaphanous, not Spanish, not a moss, weft after weft depends from chambered rafterings of live oak, […]
Use raftering when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Raftering means (UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It is nearly the same thing on stubble land as raftering is on grass land.
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