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1. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
    
2. (often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
   "a raft of letters";
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, bunch

1. Transport on a raft
   "raft wood down a river"
    
2. Travel by raft in water
   "Raft the Colorado River"
    
3. Make into a raft
   "raft these logs"

Derived forms: rafting, rafts, rafted

Type of: construct, fabricate, float, go, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, locomote, manufacture, move, transport, travel

Encyclopedia: Raft