Definition of Raft

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Definition of Raft

Raft

imp. & p. p. of Reave.

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.

A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.

A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.

To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.

of Reave

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Raft Quotations

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
H. L. Mencken

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
Penelope Lively

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.
Cesar Romero

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.
Kyra Sedgwick

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
Marie Windsor

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
Cesar Romero

I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.
Marie Windsor

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
Marie Windsor

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Ben Hecht

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
James Houston

Raft Translations

raft in Dutch is vlot
raft in Finnish is lautta
raft in French is radeau, train de bois
raft in Italian is zattera
raft in Portuguese is jangada
raft in Spanish is balsa
raft in Swedish is flotte

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