raft

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɑːft/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɹæft/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːft

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

raft (plural rafts)

  1. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies or a platform for swimmers.
  2. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
  3. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
  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.
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Verb

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
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Etymology 2

Alteration of raff.

Noun

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 [...].
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Etymology 3

Verb

raft

  1. simple past tense and past participle of reave
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

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Albanian

Etymology

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

Noun

raft m

  1. shelf

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English raft.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raft/

Noun

raft m

  1. raft (inflatable floating craft)

Declension

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