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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RAFTER , a

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BEAM
BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)

beam in a sloping roof to which is attached the framework for the slating, tiling or other

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EXTERNAL

external covering (see

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ROOFS

ROOFS) . The O.Eng. raefter is cognate with Icel. raftr,

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DAN

Dan. and Swed. rafte or raft, a beam, which, in the

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SPECIAL

special sense of a floating collection of timbers, gives the

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ENGLISH

English " raft." The ultimate

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BASE

base of these words is the

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root raf-, to

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COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover, seen in Gr. opo4os, roof .

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