raftering
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It is nearly the same thing on stubble land as raftering is on grass land."
- "It is open to doubt whether there is any great advantage, but as it is customary in the districts where raftering is practised to use a primitive scuffler called a Brewer's drag, which is made without any means of adjusting the separate tines, ..."
- "Raftering is another excellent process."
- "A simple and very primitive mode of connecting rough rafterings, where all the strength seems to be depending on a pin, is given by Fig. 9."
- "[…] here the white plunge of water down a wall of granite, and there, in bluer depths, a charcoal burner's hut sending up its spiral of smoke to the dark raftering of branches."
- "Not quite diaphanous, not Spanish, not a moss, weft after weft depends from chambered rafterings of live oak, […]"
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable