raft
/ɹæft/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
noun
A thick crowd of aquatic birds, particularly a group floating on the surface of the water.
noun
A thick crowd of aquatic birds, particularly a group floating on the surface of the water.
noun
A thick crowd of aquatic birds, particularly a group floating on the surface of the water.
Example Sentences
- "They floated down the river on an inflatable raft"
- "When George Stephenson built the Liverpool & Manchester Railway he encountered the same difficulty at Chat Moss and solved the problem by constructing a kind of raft made of brushwood that more or less floated on the surface of the bog. On this he placed as much firm soil as his raft could carry, when the operation was repeated, the first raft being thereby sunk with its load of solid earth, which was not displaced."
- "Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it... I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door. There was plenty of room on the raft. I know. I know, I know."
- "Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]"
- "Occasionally, there was a large black raft of birds far out at sea."
- "Margaret River itself, although it seems to be Scott River by Prevelly, flows into the Indian Ocean and creates a sandbank, where sat a raft of terns and gulls."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, raptr, *raf-tra-, *rap-tro-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹæft/
- British English: /ɹɑːft/
Usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb
- Archaic