·noun A Raftsman.
II. Rafter ·vt To make into rafters, as timber.
III. Rafter ·vt To furnish with rafters, as a house.
IV. Rafter ·vt To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to Ridge.
V. Rafter ·noun Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. ·see ·Illust. of Queen-post.