a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
source: WordNet 3.0
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
A batch of letters. A deal of trouble. A lot of money. He made a mint on the stock market. See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos. It must have cost plenty. A slew of journalists. A wad of money.
source: WordNet 3.0
A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.
source: Webster 1913
verb
transport on a raft
Raft wood down a river.
source: WordNet 3.0
travel by raft in water
Raft the Colorado River.
source: WordNet 3.0
make into a raft
Raft these logs.
source: WordNet 3.0
To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.
