noun
beam, timber, crossbeam, roof beam, rib, common rafter, hip rafter, jack rafter, valley rafter; see also beam 1, timber 2.
See rafter in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
A large, oblong piece of wood or other material, used especially for construction:
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