DCHP-1 Online
raft ((n.)) 
1 † n. Lumbering a number of pieces of timber pinned, bound, or otherwise kept together to facilitate transport by water.
See also: boom ((2)) ((n.)) (def. 3b) timber raft
2 n. Lumbering, Hist. 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.]
See also: crib (def. 1a) dram float (def. 1) lumber raft traverse ((2)) ((n.)) withe ((n.))
- Such rafts, of varying construction, were for more than a century a common sight moving toward Quebec on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River and its tributaries, especially the Ottawa. No attempt has been made here to distinguish the differing types of rafts, although the quotations touch on the subject.
3 n. of ice, an ice formation resulting from large cakes of ice being lifted by pressure on top of other ice.
