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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JACK RAFTER

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Jack rafter is a noun.
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WHAT DOES JACK RAFTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

jack rafter

Rafter

A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads. A pair of rafters is a couple.

Definition of jack rafter in the English dictionary

The definition of jack rafter in the dictionary is a short rafter used in a hip roof.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JACK RAFTER

jack bean
Jack Frost
jack in
Jack Ketch
jack ladder
jack of
jack of all trades
jack pike
jack pine
jack plane
jack plug
jack rabbit
Jack Robinson
Jack Russell
Jack Russell terrier
jack shit
Jack Tar
Jack the Ripper
jack towel
jack up

WORDS THAT END LIKE JACK RAFTER

after
and they all lived happily ever after
ask after
crafter
drafter
fore-and-after
hereafter
hereinafter
lofter
look after
looked-after
make after
point after
rafter
run after
shafter
sought-after
the hereafter
the morning after
thereafter
whereafter

Synonyms and antonyms of jack rafter in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «jack rafter» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JACK RAFTER

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Translator English - Chinese

插孔椽
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

jack viga
570 millions of speakers

English

jack rafter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जैक मांझी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

جاك رافتر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гнездо стропила
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

jack viga
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জ্যাক ঝরনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prise chevron
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jepun jack
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schifterschnitt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ジャック垂木
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잭 서까래
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jack rafter
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

jack kèo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பலா ரெட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जॅक राक्षस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kıç korkuluğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

jack trave
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Jack krokwi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гніздо крокви
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jack căprior
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

jack δοκός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Jack dakspar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

jack taksparre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

jack rafter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of jack rafter

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JACK RAFTER»

The term «jack rafter» is used very little and occupies the 192.783 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JACK RAFTER» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JACK RAFTER»

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1
Carpentry and Building Construction: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
Another technique is to locate the first jack rafter in from the corner of the building a distance equal to the on-center rafter spacing and locate all other jack rafters from it as shown in 14-25. The length of the first jack rafter is equal to the common  ...
William Spence, 1999
2
Understanding Construction Drawings
The first jack rafter should be a full space (16 inches or 24 inches) from the bottom ofthe hip or the top of the valley. Therefore, the first jack rafter should be the length shown on the raftertable. The length ofthetail must be addedto thetheoretical ...
Mark W. Huth, 2013
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Residential Framing: A Homebuilder's Construction Guide
12-32 Lay out and cut hip jack rafters in pairs THE RUNOF HIP VALLEY CRIPPLE JACKS IS FROM THE CENTER OF THE VALLEY RAFTER TO THE CENTER OF THE HIP RAFTER CHEEK CUT 72-33 A typical valley jack rafter. the ...
William Perkins Spence, 1993
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Residential Construction Academy: Carpentry
TOTAL RISE OF JACK RAFTER JACK RAFTER RUN A B Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning. ... PROCEDURE 12-5 RIDGEBOARD JACK RAFTERS Jack Rafter Layout The first jack rafter length is calculated by multiplying run by unit length.
Floyd Vogt, 2011
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Workshop Math
Jack Rafter Shortening Allowances A hip jack has a shortening allowance at the upper end consisting of one-half of the 45-degree thickness of the hip rafter. A valley jack has a shortening allowance at the upper end consisting of one-half of  ...
Robert Scharff, 1989
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Graphic Guide to Frame Construction
The top ends of the jack rafters may be cut off to permit venting at the top of the hip roof (bottom drawing at right). SheathiNG hip raFter projected below jack raFter jack raFter SheathiNG hip raFter Shallower thaN jack raFter jack raFter FiNiSh ...
Rob Thallon, 2008
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Framing Roofs
find. the. Jack-Rafter. Run,. then. get. the. Length. with. the. common-Rafter. multiplier. Run eLevation view 1. Lay out the jack rafters on the top plate. I like to stack them over the studs of the sidewall, then transfer that same layout to the end ...
Fine Homebuilding, 2010
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Roof Framing
Steps for the Jack Rafter Step 24: Actual Run of the Jack— Figure 9-51 and the text that follows explain how to calculate the actual run for an 8 in 12 octagon jack rafter. The general formula for any regular polygon is: Distance from corner Run ...
Marshal Gross, 1984
9
Carpentry
backing the hip ch common rafter cri dropping the hip gambrel roof hip jack rafter eek cut hip rafter hip roof hip-valley cripple jack rafter pple jack rafter intersecting roof Select the most appropriate answer. 1. The length of any rafter in a roof of ...
Floyd Vogt, 2013
10
Audel Carpenter's and Builder's Layout, Foundation, and Framing
... the main roof. r Jack rafter—Any rafter that does not extend from the plate to the ridge is a jack rafter. r Hip-jack rafter—A hip-jack rafter extends from the plate to a hip rafter at an angle of 90◦ to the plate (see Figure 9-9). r Valley-jack rafter—A ...
Mark Richard Miller, Rex Miller, 2005

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JACK RAFTER»

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H.S. girls track: Carleen Jeffers breaks Ridgewood mark in coach's …
“So Jack Rafter of Red Bank Catholic started the Red Bank Catholic Relays the same weekend, sort of the anti-Penn Relays,” remembers ... «NorthJersey.com, Apr 15»
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Boys Cross Country Teams Preview
Key returners: Derick Pollack (Jr), Jack Rafter (Sr), Robert Arroyo (Jr), Austin Brodbeck (Jr), Amarjit Singh (So). Key newcomers: Danny Yu (Jr). «Asbury Park Press, Sep 14»
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Rafter opened doors as Red Bank Catholic coach and AD
Thanks to the late Jack Rafter, high school girls' sports are now on a par with the boys', and parochial schools compete in the conference. «Atlanticville, Jun 11»

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