But he had no faith in this; and, feeling that a third battle with the river must be fatal, he clung to the great rafter which was to be his narrow road to safety.
It was to hold the rafter as firmly as he could, and, instead of thrusting it sideways across the stream, to push it straight upwards, guiding it so that the water only pressed upon its end.
The rafter was pressed tightly against the trees, but it looked terribly unsafe, bending ominously in the middle.
When driving nails or staples into a rafter or other part, get a helper to hold up some object considerably heavier than the hammer on the farther side to deaden the blow.
Another method is to cut one rafter out very carefully, making a notch for half the width of the ridge, and to use it as a pattern for the rest.
Then I'd make a noose and stretch it out, and I'd climb on to that rafter and jump down with my head in the noose!
The brown block of adobe house stood on an arid, rocky hillside, and looked like a part of it, save for the white door, and a few bright scarlet strings of chile hung over the rafter ends to dry.
The end of the rafter is cut at right angles, so the face-board is at an angle.
The depth of the cut, for the toe of the rafter, depends on the load to be carried, and also on the distance the end of the rafter is from the end of the horizontal member on which the rafter rests.
They are used almost wholly in rafter work, and have very few modifications.
This, if properly made, is much better than the construction shown in the previous illustration, but the difficulty is to make the rafterfit into the recesses properly.
Every alternate rafter should be reversed, so that its forks might help to support the battens.
Very neat and effective bridges may be made on the rafter principle, which our engraving at p.
If you wish it sliding, so as to increase or diminish the width between them when necessary, make it on the lattice girder or rafter principle, and avoid weight, as in Fig.
Take off enough at the upper end to allow for one half the thickness of the ridge-board, and saw off one rafteras marked.
An intermediate rafter on each side will add stiffness to the roof.
Working up little balls of this with their bills, they carried them into the mill and fastened them against the rafter they had chosen.
Admired first as a singing actress, Miss Rafter in 1731 gave unequivocal notice of her considerable talent as a comic actress in the role of Nell in Coffey's The Devil to Pay, one of several hundred she mastered.
Rafter Grapple, for attaching an extra pulley to any part of the barn roof.
This makes a curvedrafter without waste of material.
Finding two pins, he crept off the bed and secured the sheet of paper to the rafter where it had hung before.
On the ground behind lay piles upon piles of rubbish and broken tiles, and perilously near our heads a huge rafter sagged downwards, half split in two.
This time the hanging rafter was dislodged and fell sullenly with a heavy crash to the ground; and now, in addition to the gap in the roof, a long rent appeared in the rear wall.
Snatching at a light rafter above his head, he swung himself out of the bunk, and kicked the stovepipe from its place.
The attempt was quite successful; but the rafter was not prepared for the strain, and Bruin and beam came thundering to the floor.
Lizards chirped from the walls of my room, and sparrows twittered from every beam and rafter of the roof.
The story of the Maories is that of the Tahitians, and is written in the decorations of every gate-post or rafter in their pahs.
This fixes the time at which the wood for the rafter or the firewood was broken or cut from the living tree, and hence the period in which the men lived who used the wood.
For example, a bit of a rafter from a prehistoric cliff-dwelling or a remnant of charcoal from an ancient fire may be analyzed for its remaining ¹⁴C content, and its age determined accurately within the margin of a few hundred years.
One of the partners generally remains on the nest to guard it from depredation; and I have seen severe contests when some sly neighbour has endeavoured to filch away a tempting rafter that has captivated his eye.
Uncle Ned dropped his spade and went sullenly away, while Absalom smiled through his tears on the old dusty rafter in the dark corner of the garret.
And then he stole softly into the house, and, without being seen, carried Absalom up to the garret, and perched him gently on a rafter in a dark corner.
South, y'understand, till he reached Shadyside, and then he headed northeast to the Rafter L.
I figured he'd come here after leavin' the Rafter L--it's only thirty miles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rafter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beam; rafter; timber
