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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "rafter" in a sentence

    rafter example sentences

    rafter


    1. looked up at the rafter where his slab of bacon was always hung


    2. Sachie moved to the barn and took an old rusty key from the rafter above the


    3. Kubo swung off the rafter and kicked the ceiling in


    4. Using the ropes that had tied up Reginald, Con slung a noose round the fellow‘s neck slung the end over a rafter and fixed it so he had to either stand on tip toe or strangle


    5. Marie was angled so that a shadow from a rafter above cloaked


    6. The knot at one end anchored the rope in the angle where the rafter met the ceiling joist


    7. started to blast away at the rafter that the rope was strung


    8. Ty was on the rafter directly over the birdcage


    9. rafter to the cage to the counter top and then to the


    10. to the sit on the rafter over the cage, one arm dangling

    11. He grasped the steel track and held it until it became stationary while hanging directly beneath the rafter


    12. A rafter beam crashed within a few feet of them, then another fell even closer


    13. In the far corner was another pile of Benjamin Corbett’s effects: football, basketball, catcher’s mitt, slide trombone, the boxer’s speed bag that once hung from a rafter in the attic


    14. Zach bounced at the end of Will's bed and hit his head on the rafter


    15. It's only that I don't wish to disturb the wedding feast, or I'd take this rope here (takes hold of the rope on the straw) and throw it across that rafter there


    16. Then I'd make a noose and stretch it out, and I'd climb on to that rafter and jump down with my head in the noose! That's what my life is!


    17. ) Yes, I'm going! A likely thing! No, you'd better look at the rafter for me! I'll fix the noose and jump with it from the rafter, then you can look for me! And the rope is here just handy


    18. " Oh, the baggage! Well, then, here I am! Come and cuddle when they've taken me down from the rafter! There's only one way!


    19. My life!… It's only that I don't wish to disturb the wedding feast, or I'd take this rope here [takes hold of the rope on the straw] and throw it across that rafter there


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    Synonyms for "rafter"

    balk baulk rafter raftman raftsman stud timber joist beam strut stay girder

    "rafter" definitions

    one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof


    someone who travels by raft


    provide (a ceiling) with rafters