Raftering
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Raftering is a noun meaning (UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).
Meaning
(UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).
More Meanings
- The set of rafters (sloped beams) of a building or similar construction.
- present participle and gerund of rafter
Example Sentences
Raftering is another excellent process.
It is nearly the same thing on stubble land as raftering is on grass land.
Not quite diaphanous, not Spanish, not a moss, weft after weft depends from chambered rafterings of live oak, […]
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.
Word Forms
- rafterings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include balk, baulk, trussed, roughings, racking, rake.
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