Definitions for raft

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raft raft

Spelling: [raft, rahft]

IPA: /ræft, rɑft/

Raft is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in raft (afrt).

Definitions for raft

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 raft

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

Examples for raft

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

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

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

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

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

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

Complaints about the raft of security measures are dismissed.

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

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

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