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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAFTER , a See also:

beam in a sloping roof to which is attached the framework for the slating, tiling or other See also:external covering (see See also:ROOFS). The O.Eng. raefter is cognate with Icel. raftr, See also:Dan. and Swed. rafte or raft, a beam, which, in the See also:special sense of a floating collection of timbers, gives the See also:English " raft." The ultimate See also:base of these words is the See also:root raf-, to See also:cover, seen in Gr. opo4os, roof.

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