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rafter ((v.)) Nfld 
v. See raft 1883 quote.
See also: raft ((v.)) (def. 3)
- 1861 It is a sad sight to see a ship on the weather edge of ice not enabled to work off; for when the ice begins to rafter she is thrown up, falls over, and becomes like corn between two millstones, and is literally ground up.
- 1924 Then for two days a tumultuous army floated by--miles and miles of ice, raftering and rearing and overriding us it fought its way to the sea.
- 1964 Evidently, just like frozen masses of ice raftered . . . the crust of the earth broke and travelled southward. . . .
- 1861 It is a sad sight to see a ship on the weather edge of ice not enabled to work off; for when the ice begins to rafter she is thrown up, falls over, and becomes like corn between two millstones, and is literally ground up.