Raft

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  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A flatbottom inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
  • intransitive verb. To convey on a raft.
  • intransitive verb. To make into a raft.
  • intransitive verb. To travel by raft.
  • noun. A great number, amount, or collection.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To transport or float on a raft.
  • To make a raft of; form into a raft.
  • To manage a raft; work upon a raft or rafts; travel by raft.
  • noun. A damp fusty smell.
  • noun. A miscellaneous collection or heap; a promiscuous lot: used slightingly: as, a raft of papers; a whole raft of things to be attended to.
  • noun. An obsolete preterit and past participle of reave.
  • noun. A beam; spar; rafter.
  • noun. A sort of float or framework formed of logs, planks, or other pieces of timber fastened or lashed together side by side, for the convenience of transporting the constituent materials down rivers, across harbors, etc.
  • noun. A structure similarly formed of any materials for the floating or transportation of persons or things.
  • noun. An accumulation of driftwood from fallen trees in a river, lodged and compacted so as to form a permanent obstruction.
  • noun. A conglomeration of eggs of some animals, as certain insects and mollusks, fastened together and forming a. mass; a float. See cut under Ianthina.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. & p. p. of reave.
  • transitive verb. To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft.
  • noun. A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.
  • noun. A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.
  • noun. A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.
  • noun. A bridge that consists of floating timbers fastened together.
  • noun. The redhead.
  • noun. a large, square port in a vessel's side for loading or unloading timber or other bulky articles; a timber or lumber port.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
  • noun. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies or a platform for swimmers.
  • noun. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
  • noun. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
  • verb. to convey on a raft
  • verb. to make into a raft
  • verb. to travel by raft
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make into a raft
  • noun. a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
  • verb. transport on a raft
  • verb. travel by raft in water
  • noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  • Word Usage
    "Horror of Horrors -- capital H's -- to both Horrors -- instead of leading me to the 'cradle,' which I called a raft, he took me to a little square board held up by two crossed iron arms, called a 'buggy.'"
    Form
    rafted  rafting  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Taft  aft  craft  daft  draft  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    balloon  barge  barricade  bridge  bundle  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    reave  
    verb-form
    rafted  rafting  rafts