† rafteryadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Full of rafters.
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1871 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 164/1 The roof seemed..in its coal-smoked, raftery hollow to generate a heat deadlier than that poured upon it from the skies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1871- as sib as sieve and riddle that both grew in a wood
- as silent as the grave
- as simple as abc
- as simple as falling off a log
- as simple as rolling off a log
- as slick as nothing at all
- as slippery as an eel
- as slow as molasses
- as smooth as a millpond
- as smooth, true, straight as a die
- as sober as a judge
- as soft as nothing at all
- as solemn as a judge
- as solid as a rock
- as soon
- as soon as
- as soon as look at etc
- as soon as look at him
- as soon as look at you
- as soon as poss
- as soon so
- as soon…as soon
- as sound as a alsoany roach
- as sound as a bell
- as sound as a pippin