raft
A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
Example
“They floated down the river on an inflatable raft”
Other meanings
Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
A kind of
- float
Kinds of raft
- life raft
Related words
- rafter
- whitewater rafting
Word history
From Old Norse "raptr".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “raft” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.