Definitions for rafting

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rafting raft·ing

Spelling: [raf-ting, rahf-]

IPA: /ˈræf tɪŋ, ˈrɑf-/

Rafting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in rafting (afginrt).

Definitions for rafting

noun

1. the sport of traveling on rivers and streams by raft.
2. a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:
3. a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.
4. life raft.
5. 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.

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 rafting

First recorded in 1690-1700; raft¹ + -ing¹

Examples for rafting

For this reason rivermen maintain that timber is made better by rafting.

Our first business was to water the ship by rafting and towing off the casks.

I pulled over to chat and he told me he had just returned from a rafting trip with his family.

I had found it when I was rafting so I knew they did not know about it.

Don't you remember Mr. Quince telling about rafting his wagon across swimming rivers?

The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well.

In silence they ate their supper in the rafting house near by.

About the first of April I came to Morgans trading post to get a stock of provisions to use on the rafting trips.

A successful experiment in rafting, from Jelalabad to Dakka, was tried.

After many days of rafting our travellers arrived in a most singular country.