a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers

(often followed by `of) a large number or amount or extent; a batch of letters; a deal of trouble; a lot of money; he made a mint on the stock market; see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos; it must have cost plenty; a slew of journalists; a wad of money

[ Syn: batch , deal , flock , good deal , great deal , hatful , heap , lot , mass , mess , mickle , mint , mountain , muckle , passel , peck , pile , plenty , pot , quite a little , sight , slew , spate , stack , tidy sum , wad ]

transport on a raft; raft wood down a river'

travel by raft in water; Raft the Colorado River'

make into a raft; raft these logs'