a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials

an inflatable rubber raft.

a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.

life raft.

a slab of reinforced concrete providing a footing on yielding soil, usually for a whole building, so that the weight of the soil that would be displaced by the settlement of the building exceeds the weight of the building itself; mat.

to transport on a raft.

to form (logs or the like) into a raft.

to travel or cross by raft.

(of an ice floe) to transport (embedded organic or rock debris) from the shore out to sea.

to use a raft; go or travel on a raft.

(of an ice floe) to overlap another ice floe.

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(slang) lot , barge , catamaran , collection , craft , float , heap , mat , multitude , pontoon , transport