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rafter

/raf-ter, rahf-/US // ˈræf tər, ˈrɑf- //UK // (ˈrɑːftə) //

椽子,椽子的作用

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of a series of timbers or the like, usually having a pronounced slope, for supporting the sheathing and covering of a roof.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : British Dialect. to plow so that the soil of a furrow is pushed over onto an unplowed adjacent strip.

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Examples

  • Just having that honor and that privilege to play under that jersey up there in the rafters, it’s special.

  • Every time I go out on the floor, with that name up in the rafters, you have nothing else to do except go out there and compete and play your tail off.

  • It was a special game because Hardaway was playing in the arena where his father’s jersey hangs from the rafters — the No.

  • He signed a $170 million extension in July 2017 and declared he wanted his jersey hanging in the rafters one day.

  • When she has an emotion, it just explodes out of her like one of those rafter-shaking high notes.

  • Mule strung the two women, with their consent and help, from a rafter with strategically placed soft ropes.

  • A man had come to stand beside it, his body screening the light of one of the lamps that hung from a rafter of the ceiling.

  • As one end was made fast to a rafter, it hung dangling from the window.

  • He stalked to a rafter, ran one huge finger along it, discovered a tiny speck of dust and showed it to Franz.

  • The nest of June 28th was attached to a rafter of the front verandah of a bungalow at Lahore.

  • With this meeting we leave that Oxford before the Conquest, of which possibly not one stone, or one rafter, remains.