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oof. See Illust. of Queen-post. [Courtesy] oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls. Milton.

a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. [WordNet 1.5]

One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.

A person who ingrafts.

The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt.

The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.

A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks." Tubs hanging in the balks. Chaucer.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

mon American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.

The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.

rrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. -- Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet. -- Camp fever, typhus…

lar beam (Arch.), a horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary…

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.

A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. [Engl.]

nd trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended. Milton. Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more I use the ancient courtesies of speech. Longfellow.

e whole frame or jurisprudence. Burke. The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. Jer. Taylor.

s board (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eaves lath. -- Eaves channel, Eaves gutter, Eaves trough. Same as Gutter,…

The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together. [Obs.]

The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.

e. -- Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. -- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. -- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of…