Grafter vs Rafter - What's the difference?
grafter | rafter |
One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
(slang) Someone who works in market stalls.
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 grafter and rafter
is that grafter is one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting 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.grafter
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(en noun)rafter
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Etymology 1
Old English . Cognate with "raft".Noun
(en noun)- the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters ,
