rafter

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I once had to use 1-inch diameter through bolts to secure rafter ties at the bottom of rafters on a steep 17/12 pitch roof.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2023

Earlier this year, I read a book called Built to Move, by Kelly Starrett, a physical therapist, and his wife, Juliet Starrett, a former attorney and world champion white-water rafter.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2023

Former Miami mayor Tomás Regalado, a Radio Mambí reporter in the 1980s and ’90s, recalled covering the 1994 Cuban rafter crisis and two presidential administrations.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022

“Oracle was like my cathedral,” one longtime fan told me, thinking back to all the games he watched from the rafter seats while Curry strung together mind-bending 3-pointers as if touched by grace.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2022

It looked like he had run headlong into a low rafter beam at the mouth of the alley and knocked himself unconscious.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss