Definitions for raftræft, rɑft

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

raftræft, rɑft(n.)

  1. a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant materials:

    an inflatable rubber raft.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

  2. a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

  3. Category: Nautical, Navy

    Ref: life raft.

  4. a slab of reinforced concrete providing a footing on yielding soil, usu. for a whole building.

    Category: Building Trades

  5. (v.t.)to transport on a raft.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

  6. to form (logs or the like) into a raft.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

  7. to travel or cross by raft.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

  8. (of an ice floe) to transport (embedded organic or rock debris) from the shore out to sea.

    Category: Geology

  9. (v.i.)to use a raft; go or travel on a raft.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

Origin of raft:

1250–1300; ME rafte, perh. < ON raptrrafter1

raft*ræft, rɑft(n.)

  1. a great quantity; a lot.

    Category: Informal

* Informal..

Origin of raft:

1825–35; var. of raff in sense “large number” (ME: abundance)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. raft(noun)

    a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers

  2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad(verb)

    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

  3. raft(verb)

    transport on a raft

    "raft wood down a river"

  4. raft(verb)

    travel by raft in water

    "Raft the Colorado River"

  5. raft(verb)

    make into a raft

    "raft these logs"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. raft(noun)æft, rɑft

    an air-filled boat

    They took a raft down the river.

  2. raftæft, rɑft

    ***a flat floating dock in the middle of an area of water

    ***We swam out to the raft.

  3. raftæft, rɑft

    a lot of

    a raft of possibilities/options; a raft of new products

Webster Dictionary

  1. Raft

    imp. & p. p. of Reave

  2. 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

  3. Raft(noun)

    a collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation

  4. Raft(noun)

    a large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately

  5. Raft(verb)

    to transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber

  6. Raft

    of Reave


Translations for raft

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

raft(noun)

a number of logs, planks etc fastened together and used as a boat.

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