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How to use rafter in a sentence

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Boards cut individually to fit the rafter spacings may be temporarily fixed to the battens using large headed clout nails.
The radiant barrier is most often attached near the roof, to the bottom surface of the attic truss chords or rafter framing.
Unseen above the ceiling of the nave, inserted in 1670-1, is Kempley's second exceptional feature, its roof of trussed rafter construction.
Nail a 1 x 6 facia board to seal and trim the end grain of the rafter tails.
Staple the foil to the bottom or side of the rafters, draping it from rafter to rafter.
A head gas cutter tells of the time he made a mistake on the job and cut the metal rafter he was sitting on.
As he's exploring the brewery, Pip sees what looks like Miss Havisham, hanging in her wedding dress from a ceiling rafter.
He is an experienced whitewater rafter and one of the best big water oar boaters in the world.
Battens were secured to the central rafter, allowing the weight of the tiles to displace the battens, causing the tiles to slip.
Part of the reason the Coast Guard couldn't find the rafter is its crews' information-gathering tools are still binoculars, a map and radar.
Angela, a whitewater rafter, skydiver and the family's risk-taker was intrigued by the idea.
The lead was dressed over the top of the fascia boards and, on the inside, it was dressed over the wall plate and the lower part of each rafter.
Then they fastened an array of closely spaced purlins to the rafter beams, using traditional wooden pegs.
All the roof timbers have been retained in the church except where a rafter of wall plate was absolutely rotten.
Mule strung the two women, with their consent and help, from a rafter with strategically placed soft ropes.
Modern attic rafters or traditional rafter and purlin construction will get you out of the forest of crossed members typical in a post 1960s house.
Withdrawing from the edge, I ducked under the rafter of the flat roof.
In most cases, it should be possible to insulate each rafter space all the way down to the eaves over the top of the exterior wall.
And he unpacked his saddlebags and pulled his blankets out of the sack hanging from a rafter where they were safe from mice.
I considered ending my life by looping the cord from the cell-phone charger over a rafter.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I'll fix the noose and jump with it from the rafter, then you can look for me!
The curvilinear roof gives beauty to the design as well as affording more head room inside than the ordinary straight rafter.
The end of the rafter is cut at right angles, so the face-board is at an angle.
Two sketches are shown at the joining of the tie beam and the principal rafter.
Josh announced, as he jumped up and chinned himself against a handy rafter of the low shed.
Every pole, every beam, and every rafter of the frame, is all made of hollow bamboo.
An example might be a linen closet, or an attic or basement rafter for jewelry that isn't worn often.
There was a pattering noise and an old woman rat poked her head round a rafter.
The boy heard him but did not say a word, lying on top of a rafter.
A few of the slates had fallen away and exposed part of a rafter.
As one end was made fast to a rafter, it hung dangling from the window.
He took another grip on the rafter just as he would have let go.
He looked up at the rafter where his slab of bacon was always hung.
Then he came back again, and perching on a projecting rafter spoke to me with human voice, and told me to leave off crying.
An' he went straight tull the stable an' hung humsel' tull a rafter.
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