Rafter vs Purlin - What's the difference?
rafter | purlin |
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 rafter and purlin
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 while purlin is a longitudinal structural member bridging two or more rafters of a roof.As a verb rafter
is to make (timber, etc.) into rafters.rafter
English
Etymology 1
Old English . Cognate with "raft".Noun
(en noun)- the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters ,
