raftering

“Above them are other pilasters, eighteen feet high, two feet broad, and a foot thick, which carry the beams supporting the principal raftering and the roof of the aisles, which is brought down lower than the main roof.”

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“The scene was such as Salvator might have painted: wild blocks of stone heaped under walnut-shade; here the white plunge of water down a wall of granite, and there, in bluer depths, a charcoal burner's hut sending up its spiral of smoke to the dark raftering of branches.”

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“The region over which we had just come had been an open sea at the last full moon, and a brisk wind from any direction excepting the north would make it the same again; or the raftering from a north wind would make it a ragged surface of broken plate glass.”

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

“For the last half of this march the ice was raftering all about us and beneath our very feet under the pressure of the howling gale.”

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

“Late in the afternoon we began to hear loud reports and rumblings among the floes, as well as the more sibilant sound of the raftering young ice in various directions.”

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

“During the night the lead had narrowed somewhat, raftering the young ice.”

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

“That night the ice was raftering about our camp with the movement of the tide.”

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

“With the first of the daylight we were hurrying across the lead on the raftering young ice, which was moving, crushing, and piling up with the closing of the sides of the lead.”

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

“(Cook's Journal, Vol.VII. p. 315.) As we are treating of fishy matters, let me insert what Pliny says, that "the commanders of the fleets of Alexander the Great have related that the Gedrosi, who dwell on the banks of the river Arabis, are in the habit of making the doors of their houses with the jaw-bones of fishes, and raftering the roofs with their bones.”

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