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
1Other 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
I even ask myself, are the cakes and the rafts taking away from the art of my culture, DJing?
Later on during our 32 hours of being boarded in, these two slithers of light became our little life rafts.
The oceans of discontent are rising and submerging all of the rescue rafts.
Rising to a point where it cools, the vapour gathers back on the rafts and tends again to weight the cloud downward.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerThe grayling could sometimes be caught quite plentifully from the rafts or from the sandy curve on the other side of the bluff.
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail | Arthur R. Thompson
Here the river turned abruptly northwest, and in the bay formed by its curve lay a flotilla of log rafts.
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail | Arthur R. ThompsonThe pairs of rafts are joined by three baulks 15 ft. long laid in parallel grooves in the framing.
Rafts were quickly knocked together and the crossing made to the Indian shore.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh Pendexter
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
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