A member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
A raftsman.
A flock of turkeys.
To furnish (a building) with rafters.
To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.