noun a raftsman.
2. rafter ·vt to make into rafters, as timber.
3. rafter ·vt to furnish with rafters, as a house.
4. rafter ·vt to plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
5. rafter ·noun originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. ·see ·illust. of queen-post.