raftering, vbl. n.
(ˈrɑːftərɪŋ, -æ-)
Also 6 raftre-, raufteryng(e, raftring.
[f. rafter v. + -ing1.]
1. Roofing with, or forming of, rafters; the arrangement of rafters; wood for rafters.
| 1538 Elyot Dict., Contignatio,..the raufterynge. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 232 Buyldyng an hous euen from the foundacion vnto the vttermost raftreyng and reirynge of the roofe. 1667 Primatt City & C. Build. 65 How many square of Raftering there will be in a Roof. 1857 tr. Pliny (Bohn) VI. 345 The raftering being so contrived as to admit of the beams being removed. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 357 The ben-teak yields timber used for raftering and flooring. |
| transf. c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxxix, viii, Thou, how my back was beam-wise laid, And raftring of my ribbs dost know. |
2. Agric. A certain method of ploughing (see
quot. 1851, and
cf. rafter v. 2).
| a 1733 in Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. (1733) ix. 94 By the Paring and Burning the Surface; by Raftering, or Cross Plowing. Ibid. (1762) 297, I have seen Land plowed in this manner, where not half of it has been moved, nor better tilled than by Raftering. 1778 W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 7 Dec. 1775 The Plowman..told me, that it is his country-method of plowing, and calls it raftering. 1851 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) I. 183/1 There is a kind of ploughing..which bears the name of ribbing in Scotland and of raftering in England... It consists in turning the furrow-slices on their backs upon as much of the firm soil as they will cover. |