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Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc..

Bird''s-mouth :: Bird's-mouth (n.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States..

Substituted :: Substitute (n.) a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.

Spar :: Spar (v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters..

Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called the balks..

Rafter :: Rafter (v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house..

Drafted :: Drafted (imp. & p. p.) of Draf.

Blade :: Blade (n.) The principal rafters of a roof.

Plate :: Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

Tiebeam :: Tiebeam (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof..

Rifter :: Rifter (n.) A rafter.

Whipstitch :: Whipstitch (v. t.) To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land..

Bargecourse :: Bargecourse (n.) A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable..

Ridgepole :: Ridgepole (n.) The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured..

Rafter :: Rafter (n.) A raftsman.

Sarking :: Sarking (n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes..

Rafter :: Rafter (v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber..

Grafted :: Grafted (imp. & p. p.) of Graf.

Firms :: Firms (a.) The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together..

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