Ratter vs Rafter - What's the difference?
ratter | rafter |
Anything which catches rats, especially a dog trained to catch them; a rat terrier.
One who rats; a traitor; a deserter.
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 ratter and rafter
is that ratter is anything which catches rats, especially a dog trained to catch them; a rat terrier 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.ratter
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Alternative forms
* rattener (rare)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*rafter
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Etymology 1
Old English . Cognate with "raft".Noun
(en noun)- the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters ,