Meaning of raftering | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).
   UK, countable, uncountable
2. The set of rafters (sloped beams) of a building or similar construction.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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, […]”

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