Drafter vs Rafter - What's the difference?
drafter | rafter |
a person who prepares technical drawings and plans
a person who prepares drafts
(US) a person who writes a legislative bill
One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
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flock of turkeys
To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
To furnish (a building) with rafters.
(UK, agriculture) To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between drafter and rafter
is that drafter is a person who prepares technical drawings and plans while rafter is one of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.As a verb rafter is
to make (timber, etc.) into rafters.drafter
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Etymology 1
Old English . Cognate with "raft".Noun
(en noun)- the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters ,