raft

IPA: rˈæft

A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
(by extension) 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.
(US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
(US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
(cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.

(transitive) To convey on a raft.
(transitive) To make into a raft.
(intransitive) To travel by raft.
(graphical user interface) To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.

Examples of "raft" in Sentences

There was a set of paddle and a raft.
Byron uses the commotion to steal the raft.
On the raft, the situation deteriorated rapidly.
What is the physiological function of lipid rafts
The ship was on the left with the raft on the right.
The raft was guided to the escape door of the aircraft.
The size of the raft and the steering device is amazing.
The community is in the area of the Raft River Mountains.
The twenty men built a raft from flotsam and towed it behind the boat.
Some twenty men built a raft from flotsam and towed it behind the boat.
This particular raft is designed to automatically inflate when immersed in salt water.
On February 1, 1966 the four-man life raft from the aircraft was found off the coast of North Vietnam approximately 152 miles from the last known position of the aircraft.
Horror of Horrors -- capital H's -- to both Horrors -- instead of leading me to the 'cradle,' which I called a raft, he took me to a little square board held up by two crossed iron arms, called a 'buggy.'
The sheer beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert and the power of the river work their magicuntil the raft is lost in the rapids and a young college student falls overboard, resulting in an even more grisly discovery.