单词 | raftered |
释义 | rafteredadj. 1. Roofed with or composed of rafters; spec. (of a room or ceiling) having exposed rafters.In quot. 1670 designating a type of house lacking side walls and with rafters set directly on the ground. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > roofed > in specific manner > specific coupledc1384 thatched1467 stone-heled1578 slate-hung1648 slate-roofed1648 raftered1670 rafted1739 stob-thatched1792 reeded1819 hip-roofed1821 wagon-vaulted1835 span-roofed1842 saddle-backed1853 thatchy1864 tortoise-roofed1886 mansarded1890 monopitch1961 skillion-roofed1967 1670 Surry Co., Va., Deed & Will Bk. 1652–1672 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 304 [A plantation in Surry County, Virginia, contained] 3 sixty foot walplate tobacco house [and] one 50 foote raftered [MS rafterd] house. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 10 No rafter'd Roofs with Dance and Tabor sound. 1787 T. Warton Let. 26 Aug. (1995) iv. 583 The..hall of the abbey still remains complete, with its original raftered roof of good workmanship. 1807 C. Smith Beachy Head 34 A tiller of the soil dwells there, And of the turret's loop'd and rafter'd halls Has made an humbler homestead. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. ii. 91 Quaint casements and raftered rooms. 1928 Cent. Mag. May 52/1 The quiet ceremony of the servants ushered her into the dark, raftered hall. 1953 L. S. Mitchell Two Lives xviii. 316 I think he loved best his little Greensboro house with its raftered ceiling, its barn doors sliding back to open up half of two sides of the room. 1981 Winterthur Portfolio 16 154/2 Raftered houses. An ancient European building type brought to the Chesapeake was the house without walls, the primitive, ground-standing A-frame. 1999 Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 Aug. 53 The Lamours family home is an old mill whose raftered dining-room overlooks the millstream. 2. Of ice: forced into overriding layers. ΚΠ 1916 N. Duncan Billy Topsail, M.D. xvii. 130 It was six miles from the edge of the raftered ice to the first island. 1933 Daily Oklahoman 15 Dec. 2/1 We are pushing our way through raftered ice ridges, some of which are as high as the bridge of the ship. 1989 M. A. Henson Black Explorer at N. Pole xiii. 108 The going was, for the first hour, over rough, raftered ice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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