"raftering" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1849, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia",
          "text": "It is nearly the same thing on stubble land as raftering is on grass land.",
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          "ref": "1891, Walter James Malden, Tillage, page 47",
          "text": "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 tines, ...",
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          "ref": "1908, Charles Edward Green, D. Young, Encyclopædia of Agriculture",
          "text": "Raftering is another excellent process.",
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        "The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge)."
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        "(UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge)."
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          "ref": "1883, The Building News and Engineering Journal - Volume 45, page 445",
          "text": "A simple and very primitive mode of connecting rough rafterings, where all the strength seems to be depending on a pin, is given by Fig. 9.",
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          "ref": "1902, Edith Wharton, The Valley of Decision",
          "text": "[…] 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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          "text": "Not quite diaphanous, not Spanish, not a moss, weft after weft depends from chambered rafterings of live oak, […]",
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