rafts

raft¹ (r

ft)

1. A flat structure, typically made of planks, logs, or barrels, that floats on water and is used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.

2. A flatbottom inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water: shooting the rapids in a rubber raft.

v. raft·ed, raft·ing, rafts

v.tr.

1. To convey on a raft.

2. To make into a raft.

v.intr.

To travel by raft.

[Middle English, from Old Norse raptr, beam, rafter.]

raft² (r

ft)

n. Informal

A great number, amount, or collection: "As the prairie dog goes, conservation biologists say, so may go a raft of other creatures" (William K. Stevens).

[Alteration of dialectal raff, rubbish; see raffish.]

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Noun

rafts - a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"

dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads, piles

large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude

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balsa
balsa raft
blackwater rafting
Carling float
cave tubing
flock duck
gobs
Kon Tiki
lashings
life raft
Lock-down
locomote
military load classification
pilotage
piloting
raft
Raft bridge
Raft duck
Raft port

Hesitating no longer we clambered upon our rafts and rowed with all our might out to sea.

The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context

These rafts were of a shape and construction to suit the crookedness and extreme narrowness of the Neckar.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

The timbers used in the construction of Solomon's Temple were floated to Jaffa in rafts, and the narrow opening in the reef through which they passed to the shore is not an inch wider or a shade less dangerous to navigate than it was then.

The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

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