raft
Plural: rafts
Noun
- a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
- Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
- A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
- A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
- A slice of toast.
- A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
- A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
- A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
Verb
Verb Forms: rafted, rafting, rafts
- To transport or travel on a flat buoyant structure.
- transport on a raft
- "raft wood down a river"
- travel by raft in water
- "Raft the Colorado River"
- make into a raft
- "raft these logs"
- To convey on a raft.
- To make into a raft.
- To travel by raft.
- To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
- simple past and past participle of reave
Examples
- They floated down the river on an inflatable raft
- They tried to raft their tiles across the Words With Friends board, but got stuck.
Origin / Etymology
Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
Synonyms
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
Scrabble Score: 7
raft: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordraft: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
raft: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary