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Raggle - A groove cut in masonry, e.g. to receive the edge of a roof.
Ragstones - See rubble masonry.
Rail - A horizontal member in the frame of a door, window, panel, etc.
Raggle
The remaining marks in a wall where a roof one was. Two sides of a triangle, these reveal roof lines have changed over time.
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Long ago, when Hay-on-Wye, Wales was a raggle-taggle farming village with tumble-down cottages and a struggling economy, British bibliophile Richard Booth decided that he "rather felt like having a castle." ...
RaggleGroove cut in masonry, especially to receive the edge of a roof-covering.RagulyRagged (in heraldry). Also applied to funerary sculpture, e.g. cross raguly: with a notched outline.Rail ...
Where a horizontal meets a vertical surface, flashings are often in two parts, an upstand which turns up the vertical surface with a cover or counter flashing, secured into a raggle, which turns down over it.
 See also: Church, Frame, Masonry, Rail, Architecture
  
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