raftered
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]raftered (not comparable)
- Having rafters (often of a specified kind).
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:
- Inside in the smoky room with the raftered ceiling, it was dark and dismal.
- 1897, William John Courthope, The longest reign:
- O'er sculptured Cloisters, and high-raftered Halls, / By Rivers gliding under ancient Walls […]
- 1931, William Faulkner, “Mistral”, in These 13:
- We stood before a gate, looking into a court enclosed by three walls and roofed by a vine on a raftered trellis.
Verb
[edit]raftered
- simple past and past participle of rafter