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- noun Plural form of
rafter .
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Examples
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To those up in rafters at CNN ..... if Obama does wrap up the nomination you can eat humble pie.
Polls: Clinton gets lead in Indiana; Obama holds in North Carolina 2008
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"Yes, my answer was 'If I was a computer programmer in rafters apprehending burglars I would wonder what the hell I was doing there in the first place."
Embarrasing Juvenalia joshenglish 2006
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And over 30,000, as many as 50,000 people, tried to flee or fled by sea in what became known as the rafters 'crisis in the summer of 1994.
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Up in the rafters is the sled my sister found in a dump in Medford, Massachusetts, painted “Rosebud” on, and gave me for my 20th birthday.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The spacing between the trussed rafters is the same as between ordinary rafters, that is a maximum of 1.5 m.
4. Roof structure 1993
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A peacock among the rafters is a reference to immortality.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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A peacock among the rafters is a reference to immortality.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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Suspended from the rafters was a large canvas waterbag cooling in the draft, with an enamelled mug hung from it by a string.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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Suspended from the rafters was a large canvas waterbag cooling in the draft, with an enamelled mug hung from it by a string.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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On the walls, on the floor, and hanging from the rafters was a world of debris, dust-blackened, rust-corroded.
McTeague 1920
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