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timber raft Lumbering, Hist. 
n. a number of pieces of timber pinned, bound, or otherwise kept together to facilitate transport by water; or, a large assemblage of square timbers, spars, etc. arranged in any of several ways according to the conditions of the waterways used. [See picture at raft ((n.)).]
See also: raft ((n.)) (defs. 1 and 2)
- 1816 (1818) . . . the frequent sail, or heavy timber-raft, "floating many a rood," prepare the mind, by a succession of pleasing objects, for the enjoyment of the scene which awaits it.
- 1828 (1832) . . . our eyes and imagination feast on . . . timber-rafts, bateaux, and the white canoe of the savage. . . .
- 1955 There were also a number of Irish immigrants and Norwegians, and some twenty voyageurs who were going above Montreal to bring a timber raft down to Quebec.
- 1816 (1818) . . . the frequent sail, or heavy timber-raft, "floating many a rood," prepare the mind, by a succession of pleasing objects, for the enjoyment of the scene which awaits it.