As nouns the difference between rafter and girt
is that
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 or
rafter can be a raftsman while
girt is a horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
As verbs the difference between rafter and girt
is that
rafter is to make (timber, etc) into rafters while
girt is to gird or
girt can be (
gird).
As an adjective girt is
(nautical) bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
rafter English
Etymology 1
Old English . Cognate with "raft".
Noun
( en noun)
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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- the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters ,
flock of turkeys
References
Verb
( en verb)
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)
Etymology 2
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girt English
Etymology 1
Alteration of
Noun
( en noun)
A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
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Related terms
* girder
Etymology 2
From (etyl)
Verb
( en verb)
To gird.
To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
To measure the girth of.
Etymology 3
See gird
Verb
(head)
(gird)
Adjective
(-)
(nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
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