<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft.</li><li>a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.</li><li>life raft.</li><li>a slab of reinforced concrete providing a footing on yielding soil, usually for a whole building, so that the weight of the soil that would be displaced by the settlement of the building exceeds the weight of the building itself; mat.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to transport on a raft.</li><li>to form (logs or the like) into a raft.</li><li>to travel or cross by raft.</li><li>(of an ice floe) to transport (embedded organic or rock debris) from the shore out to sea.</li><li>to use a raft; go or travel on a raft.</li><li>(of an ice floe) to overlap another ice floe.</li></ul>