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raft

noun as in flatboat

noun as in boat

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He spent 47 days on a raft and survived only to be captured by the Japanese.

A raft of thrillers, sci-fi movies, and sinister dramas followed.

Mooney quickly inflated his life raft, sent out an SOS signal and drifted for fourteen days before he was rescued.

Complaints about the raft of security measures are dismissed.

Goldman, wisely, does not raise a raft of questions that drown a writer in the answering.

He swims every day in the river; he fishes from his bamboo raft; he hunts in the forest with his father.

It was decided that the carpenter should rig out a raft in a hasty fashion, and that we were to be put aboard it.

I improvised bandages, set the leg directly, and in a little while we got to the shore on a hastily constructed raft.

All the planters and many others near the lake shore keep a boat at their landing, and a raft for crossing vehicles and horses.

The raft had to be floated to the storehouse and a platform built, on which everything was elevated.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to raft, such as: barge, boat, lifeboat, life raft, balsa, and float.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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