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
At Fairfield University in Connecticut, where a dormant Twitter account once chronicled the campus rafter, the birds are a point of pride.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2021
She filled a feeder that hung from a corner rafter before turning to answer him.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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