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rafted

rafted is the simple past and past participle of raft.

Meaning of raft

Verb

raft (third-person singular simple present rafts, present participle rafting, simple past and past participle rafted)

  1. (transitive) To convey on a raft.
    • For timber I imported pine logs from Manchuria, rafted them two hundred miles down the Yalu River, three hundred miles over the Yellow Sea, and twenty miles up the Tatung River, where a thirty-five-foot tide lifted the consignment to Pyongyang.1969, Stella Parker Peterson, “Growing Pains”, in It Came in Handy, Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 83
  2. (transitive) To make into a raft.
  3. (intransitive) To travel by raft.
  4. To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
    • The ToolStripContainer provides built-in rafting and docking of ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls.2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005, page 11

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Forms of rafted

comparativemore rafted
superlativemost rafted

Words formed from rafted

Questions about rafted

What is rafted the simple past and past participle of?
Rafted is the simple past and past participle of raft.

Words near rafted in the dictionary

  1. raft-ups
  2. raftability
  3. raftable
  4. raftage
  5. rafte
  6. rafted
  7. rafter
  8. rafter snapper
  9. rafter snappers
  10. raftered
  11. raftering

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