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Raft [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An assemblage of boards, planks or pieces of timber fastened together horizontally and floated down a stream; a float.

Raft [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Torn; rent; severed. obsolete

Raft Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. imp. & p. p. of Reave.

Raft [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

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

3. A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.

Raft [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Rafte Webster's Dictionary 1913

imp. of Reave.

Rafted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Raft

Rafter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A roof timber; a piece of timber that extends from the plate of a building to the ridge and serves to support the covering of the roof.

Rafter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A raftsman.

2. Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.

Rafter [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make into rafters, as timber.

2. To furnish with rafters, as a house.

3. To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.

Raftered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Built or furnished with rafters.

Rafting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The business of making or managing rafts.

Rafting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Raft

Raftsman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A man engaged in rafting.

Raftsmen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Raftsman

Rafty [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Damp; musty. [Local.]

Rafty [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Damp; musty.