2 From rates, a raft or flat-bottomed barge.
4 He is the leader of some animals on a raft on a shoreless sea.
Molly asked from where she was standing in the doorway, holding a raft of papers.
I suppose you had a raft of this abuse stuff back in Pennsylvania.
At the wreck of the " Medusa " frigate in 1876, fifteen people survived on a raft for thirteen days without food.
Prince Andrew, leaning his arms on the raft railing, gazed silently at the flooding waters glittering in the setting sun.
In the following year Raft` b.
Single tree trunks sent down to the Rhine by the various tributaries are united into small rafts as they reach the main stream; and these again are fastened together to form one large raft about Andernach.
On reaching Dort the rafts are broken up and sold, a single raft sometimes producing as much as £30,000.
Prince Andrew stood leaning on the railing of the raft listening to Pierre, and he gazed with his eyes fixed on the red reflection of the sun gleaming on the blue waters.
And if not, a raft of who and why questions.
When they were discovered, a mere raft of reeds in which they could scarcely venture a mile from shore was their only means of navigation.
The raft had long since stopped and only the waves of the current beat softly against it below.
Entering big rapids with your raft in the wrong position or missing an important mid-rapid move will often yield a calamitous outcome.
457.) When Odysseus (Ulysses) was swept into the sea from the raft on which he had left the home of Calypso, he swam ashore to Scheria, where he fell asleep on the bank of a river.
You can canoe, kayak or whitewater raft the many lakes and rivers.
People are frequently hurt, or worse, in white water that is "over their heads." Row or paddle your raft into an eddy or easy landing spot long before you reach rapids--too close and you might get sucked into it.
Then Hunter added, "No credit card receipt either but there's a raft of places between the office and the motel and they could have stopped anywhere."
A sufficient length of cable to reach the shore or the cable-house is paid overboard and coiled on a raft or rafts, or on the deck of a steam-launch, in order to be connected with the shore.
Ratis, a raft), the name given by B.
For fishing the islanders use double-decked raft boats, similar to those of southern Formosa.
In their first interview, held on a raft in the middle of the river Niemen at Tilsit on the 25th of June, the French emperor, by his mingled strength and suppleness of intellect, gained an easy mastery over the impressionable young potentate.
Some species of Dolomedes, indeed, habitually construct a raft by spinning dead leaves together and float over the water upon it watching for an opportunity to dash upon any insect that alights upon its surface.
In length, and are navigated by 200 to 400 men, who live in little huts on the raft, forming actual floating villages.
It owes most of its interest to the peace signed here in July 1807, the preliminaries of which were settled by the emperors Alexander and Napoleon on a raft moored in the Memel.
The weir is opened by joining the needles of each bay by a chain passed through the eyes at the top and a line of wire through the central rings, so that when released at the top by the tilting of the escape bar by the derrick, they float down as a raft, and are caught by a man in a boat, or, when the cur rent is strong, they are 'mopes ?o drawn to the bank by a rope attached to them previously to their release.
Bonham Carter with two officers and four petty officers had got on a Carley raft and floated down the canal.
The more important affluents are the North Fork in the E., the Raft, Salmon Falls and the Bruneau in the S., the Owyhee and the Payette in the S.W., and the Salmon and Clearwater in the W.
Fossil wood of the Pinites type (Pityoxylon) has been described from England, France, Germany, Sweden, Spitsbergen, North America and elsewhere; some of the best British examples have been obtained from the so-called Pine-raft, the remains of water-logged and petrified wood of Lower Greensand age, seen at low water near Brook Point in the Isle of Wight.
In the course of the summer I had discovered a raft of pitch pine logs with the bark on, pinned together by the Irish when the railroad was built.
A third class, those upon the Red river and its branches, are caused mainly by the partial stoppage of the water above Shreveport by the " raft," a mass of drift such as frequently gathers in western rivers, which for a distance of 45 m.
The Arab traders in the Levant certainly used a floating compass, as did the Italians before the introduction of the pivoted needle; the magnetized piece of iron being floated upon a small raft of cork or reeds in a bowl of water.
The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.
