(UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).
It is nearly the same thing on stubble land as raftering is on grass land.
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The set of rafters (sloped beams) of a building or similar construction.
It is open to doubt whether there is any great advantage, but as it is customary in the districts where raftering is practised to use a primitive scuffler called a Brewer's drag, which is made without any means of adjusting the separate …
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