raft

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɑːft/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹæft/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːft

an inflatable life raft

a wooden raft

From North Germanic; compare West Old Norse raptr (“rafter”), Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).

raft (plural rafts)

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

   An inflatable raft. A log raft.

2. (inexact) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
   • 2016 February 2, Kate Winslet & al., Jimmy Kimmel Live!

     Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...
     I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door.
     There was plenty of room on the raft.
     I know. I know, I know.

3. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
4. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
5. (US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.

• life raft

raft (third-person singular simple present rafts, present participle rafting, simple past and past participle rafted)

1. (transitive) To convey on a raft.
2. (transitive) To make into a raft.
3. (intransitive) To travel by raft.
4. (graphical user interface) To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
   • 2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005 (page 11)

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

• rafter
• whitewater rafting

Alteration of raff.

raft (plural rafts)

1. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 31:

     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 [...].

raft

1. simple past tense and past participle of reave

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

• RTFA, TRAF, fart, frat, traf

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (compare Turkish raf), contaminated with rrafsh.

raft m

1. shelf

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from English raft.

• IPA^(key): /raft/

raft m

1. raft (inflatable floating craft)