Noun : an inflatable rubber raft. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : a raft of trouble. From Dictionary.com.
We had never made a raft, any of us, but the way to make rafts is better described in books, so we knew what to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
Moreover, monomeric α-syn can be found in lipid rafts, which is required for the synaptic localization of α-syn. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
When I started camping as a kid those "rafts" WERE air matresses, and the only air matresses. From Wordnik.com. [Homemade air mattress] Reference
"Bungao, bind the siwaka rafts together and head for Cotabato. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
Groups or "rafts" of the penguins swim ashore shortly after dusk. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Don't rely on flotation devices, such as rafts, you may lose them in the water. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The idea of mammals being transported on "rafts" of vegetation was first mooted back in. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Addison drove them to the railway station, where the old Squire checked their empty image "rafts" in the baggage car. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
The idea of mammals being transported on "rafts" of vegetation was first mooted back in 1940 by US researcher George Simpson. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
When it sank, the passengers used inner tubes as life rafts. From Wordnik.com. [The War Over EliáN] Reference
Hundreds of rafts and boats rise and fall in the azure swell. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Wind] Reference
He has a hundred thousand men with him, all on rafts on the Seine. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Watch for the rafts of mosquitoes 'eggs on the surface of the water. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The drinking water in the casks attached to the life rafts was putrid. From Wordnik.com. [Dead In the Water] Reference
Beachgoers on rafts clogged the water off of one San Diego beach July 17. From Wordnik.com. [Floatopia's Last Hurrah in San Diego?] Reference
"The Pinheads make their living from supplying rivers and building rafts.". From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
"We're talking about rafts -- that raft," pointing to the one on the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Some were drowned and others were carried down the stream on improvised rafts. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
By rote, all of us stewardesses pointed out the rafts in their normal sequence. From Wordnik.com. [Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: Welcome to Vietnam] Reference
A large balsa just passed us, one of the huge rafts made of hundreds of cedar logs. From Wordnik.com. [Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)] Reference
A large stingray, not really dangerous, but eerie, began swimming between the rafts. From Wordnik.com. [Dead In the Water] Reference
The soldiers tore down the log houses and made rafts of the logs to cross the river. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
At least 50 of these rafts were seen crossing the water with a number under construction. From Wordnik.com. [Cameron Sinclair: Hope Floats: The Community Rafts of Northern Pakistan] Reference
We stood and watched the others afloat on the sea, from distant rafts they were calling hello. From Wordnik.com. [dishonest decade)] Reference
At each river he had his story of difficulty and danger in constructing rafts or building bridges. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Men who had helped the wounded onto rafts now waited for the wounded to die so they could replace them. From Wordnik.com. [Dead In the Water] Reference
For years, they had gone out looking for balseros -- people on homemade rafts trying to escape from Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Brothers] Reference
"Floaties and rafts are fun," says pediatrician Marilyn Bull, chair of the AAP committee on injury prevention. From Wordnik.com. [Family: Too Young To Swim?] Reference
Their ordeal lasted nearly 48 hours -- and one by one, 11 people slipped off the rafts and disappeared into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The War Over EliáN] Reference
"You see these people getting off the rafts -- they're desperate," says Efrain Veiga, a Coral Gables restaurant owner. From Wordnik.com. ['How Can We Say No?'] Reference
During the days, inflatable Zodiac rafts will take you ashore for exercise and a visit with the native seals and penguins. From Wordnik.com. [Travel: Trips That Take Your Breath Away] Reference
If there were disturbances, there could be Cubans heading to the shores to get on boats and rafts to come toward south Florida. From Wordnik.com. [From Castro to Castro] Reference
The men organized themselves; the wounded were placed on two life rafts and inside floater nets, webs of nylon attached to buoys. From Wordnik.com. [Dead In the Water] Reference
But these organizations are rafts in a rising river of need that has roared through this country without most of us ever even knowing. From Wordnik.com. [Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids] Reference
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