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