raft
noun
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials.
will raft
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future tenseof raft.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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In the pre-dawn hours of May 10, 85 descendants of Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen and his followers, the Green Mountain Boys, will raft across Lake Champlain from Hands Cove, Vt., to retake Fort Ticonderoga.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Crosby eyed the ‘cloth’ a moment and sarcastically replied, ‘As much as you, sir, will raft and take away between this and sundown.’
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez
"Then tomorrow I will raft you up to our new abode," she answered cheerfully.
From A Mating in the Wilds by Binns, Ottwell
The tug will leave you at the cove, where you will establish a camp, and to which you will raft the recovered logs, holding them against her return, which will be in about a week.
From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)
