Conveying goods by floating, as by raft-chains, lashings, &c.
·noun The business of making or managing rafts. II. Rafting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Raft>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The business of [constructing and] floating rafts.--Webster. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.