raft
1a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft.
a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.
to transport on a raft.
to form (logs or the like) into a raft.
to travel or cross by raft.
(of an ice floe) to transport (embedded organic or rock debris) from the shore out to sea.
to use a raft; go or travel on a raft.
(of an ice floe) to overlap another ice floe.
Origin of raft
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Other definitions for raft (2 of 2)
a great quantity; a lot: a whole raft of trouble.
Origin of raft
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How to use raft in a sentence
He is leading a round of investment in Aave worth $25 million by purchasing a raft of the project’s own governance tokens.
So we sent in a raft of questions to the company to better understand the demand that it is seeing in the market for its service.
Unqork’s $207M Series C underscores growing enterprise demand for no-code apps | Alex Wilhelm | October 7, 2020 | TechCrunchI lived in my truck for years and spent a decade of summers sleeping under the stars as a raft guide.
Authoritarians are using a raft of digital technologies to counter dissent, maintain political control, and stay in power.
Covid-19 and the geopolitics of American decline | Katie McLean | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIt joins a raft of EV makers making the jump to public markets.
Electric-vehicle startup Canoo to go public, joining the wave of companies chasing Tesla’s success | dzanemorris | August 18, 2020 | Fortune
He spent 47 days on a raft and survived only to be captured by the Japanese.
A raft of thrillers, sci-fi movies, and sinister dramas followed.
Mooney quickly inflated his life raft, sent out an SOS signal and drifted for fourteen days before he was rescued.
Victor Mooney’s Epic Adventure for His Dead Brother | Justin Jones | October 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTComplaints about the raft of security measures are dismissed.
Goldman, wisely, does not raise a raft of questions that drown a writer in the answering.
Mexico City: Francisco Goldman’s Other Lost Love | Jason Berry | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe swims every day in the river; he fishes from his bamboo raft; he hunts in the forest with his father.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin | Mary Hazelton WadeIt was decided that the carpenter should rig out a raft in a hasty fashion, and that we were to be put aboard it.
Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser | Walter Fenton MottI improvised bandages, set the leg directly, and in a little while we got to the shore on a hastily constructed raft.
Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert ParkerAll the planters and many others near the lake shore keep a boat at their landing, and a raft for crossing vehicles and horses.
The raft had to be floated to the storehouse and a platform built, on which everything was elevated.
British Dictionary definitions for raft (1 of 2)
/ (rɑːft) /
a buoyant platform of logs, planks, etc, used as a vessel or moored platform
a thick slab of reinforced concrete laid over soft ground to provide a foundation for a building
to convey on or travel by raft, or make a raft from
Origin of raft
1Derived forms of raft
- rafting, noun
British Dictionary definitions for raft (2 of 2)
/ (rɑːft) /
informal a large collection or amount: a raft of old notebooks discovered in a cupboard
Origin of raft
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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