Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A rafter.
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- noun obsolete A
rafter .
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Examples
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The Channer Vent supervisor, rifter Lenie Clark, survived the nuke and though her eyes are gone, she seeks vengeance on those who tried to bury her.
Maelstrom-Peter Watts « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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And now we have * Behemoth: B-Max*, which reveals that Clarke is now part of a rifter community sharing space on the seabed with the remnant refugees of corporate America.
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This adds a measure of empirical confidence to other, related predictions regarding rifter behavior.
Starfish 1999
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It implies a relative indifference to personal welfare, an attitude entirely consistent with the profile I developed at the onset of the rifter program.
Starfish 1999
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She wonders why it's never bothered her before, and realizes that this is the first time she's ever seen a rifter smile.
Starfish 1999
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"There was — I mean, the other one" This has to be the rifter who was hanging off his viewport a few minutes ago: CLARKE, her shoulder patch says.
Starfish 1999
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They follow the bearing, their lights dimmed to embers, through darkness almost impenetrable even to rifter eyes.
Starfish 1999
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"I always thought you were too smart to be a rifter."
Starfish 1999
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Isn't this exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from a rifter?
Starfish 1999
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The rifter was curled into a fetal position against the bulkhead.
Starfish 1999
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