Raft

Quick meaning: Raft is a noun meaning A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.

Meaning

A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
2. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
3. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
4. (US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
5. A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
6. (cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
7. (transitive) To convey on a raft.

Example Sentences

They floated down the river on an inflatable raft

The ToolStripContainer provides built-in rafting and docking of ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls.

Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]

Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].

Word Forms

• rafts
• rafting
• rafted

Synonyms for raft

Depending on context, synonyms include slew, spate, mass, pile, deal, mint.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spate, stack, slew, pile, hatful, pot.

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