Definitions for rafts

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rafts raft

Spelling: [raft, rahft]

IPA: /ræft, rɑft/

Rafts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in rafts (afrst).

Definitions for rafts

noun

1. a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
2. a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.
3. life raft.
4. a slab of reinforced concrete providing a footing on yielding soil, usually for a whole building, so that the weight of the soil that would be displaced by the settlement of the building exceeds the weight of the building itself; mat.
5. a great quantity; a lot:

verb (used with object)

1. to transport on a raft.
2. to form (logs or the like) into a raft.
3. to travel or cross by raft.
4. (of an ice floe) to transport (embedded organic or rock debris) from the shore out to sea.

verb (used without object)

1. to use a raft; go or travel on a raft.
2. (of an ice floe) to overlap another ice floe.

Origin of rafts

1250-1300; Middle English rafte, perhaps Old Norse raptr rafter¹

Examples for rafts

I have seen a raft built of cedar logs and cedar bark ropes in an hour.

As if he were not capable of controlling a raft or a bonfire!

After they had a good start the band on the raft began to play.

Goldman, wisely, does not raise a raft of questions that drown a writer in the answering.

We brainstormed different props to bring out during my set including super soakers, Chinese dragons and … the raft.

Complaints about the raft of security measures are dismissed.

Paul then signed to the raft and to the reef, as much as to tell the other to withdraw his party.

He spent 47 days on a raft and survived only to be captured by the Japanese.

A raft of thrillers, sci-fi movies, and sinister dramas followed.

In the name of God, look again, and see in what condition the wretches have got their raft!