noun

• (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
  "When George Stephenson built the Liverpool & Manchester Railway he encountered the same difficulty at Chat Moss and solved the problem by constructing a kind of raft made of brushwood that more or less floated on the surface of the bog. On this he placed as much firm soil as his raft could carry, when the operation was repeated, the first raft being thereby sunk with its load of solid earth, which was not displaced."
• (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
• (US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
• (cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.

verb

• (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."
• (transitive) To make into a raft.
• (intransitive) To travel by raft.
• (graphical user interface) 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."

verb

• (archaic) simple past and past participle of reave
  "Colin Clout raft me of his brother"