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Raft

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Noun

1. raft

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

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

Example Sentences:
'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'

Verb

3. raft

transport on a raft

Example Sentences:
'raft wood down a river'

4. raft

travel by raft in water

Example Sentences:
'Raft the Colorado River'

5. raft

make into a raft

Example Sentences:
'raft these logs'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Raft

see synonyms of raft
noun
1. 
a buoyant platform of logs, planks, etc, used as a vessel or moored platform
2. 
a thick slab of reinforced concrete laid over soft ground to provide a foundation for a building
verb
3. 
to convey on or travel by raft, or make a raft from
noun
informal
a large collection or amount
a raft of old notebooks discovered in a cupboard

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Raft

see synonyms of raft
noun
1. 
a flat, buoyant structure of logs, boards, barrels, etc. fastened together; specif., one used like a boat as in an emergency or in shallow water
2. 
a similar structure anchored in a river or lake and used by divers, swimmers, etc.
3. 
a flat-bottomed, inflatable device, as of rubber, for floating on water
verb transitive
4. 
to transport on a raft
5. 
to make into a raft
verb intransitive
6. 
to travel, work, etc. on a raft
noun
Informal
a large number, collection, or quantity; lot

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Raft

see synonyms of raft
n.
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.
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).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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