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If they still have the raft, they should contact Navimo's customer service department with the serial number to confirm whether the raft is affected by this recall.

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  1. noun A flat structure, typically made of planks, logs, or barrels, that floats on water and is used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
  2. noun A flatbottom inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water: shooting the rapids in a rubber raft.
  3. transitive verb To convey on a raft.
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  • We have visited the old pond, and, if I mistake not, the relics of your old raft yet float there; at all events, one or two fragments of a raft are there, caught among rushes. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Other people around the raft were also comforting each other, although a majority were either sobbing hysterically or so blissed out on glanded drugs that they just stared skyward happily. —  Wraithbait
  • At the helm of the raft is a Kanak tribesman who was given the job of taking them out to meet the ship. —  KLuBBKiDD'S RaVe
  • "We saw the raft, and 50 feet from the raft was swimming the survivor," Jennings said. —  Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog
  • If they still have the raft, they should contact Navimo's customer service department with the serial number to confirm whether the raft is affected by this recall. —  YBW News
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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse raptr, beam, rafter.
  2. Alteration of dialectal raff, rubbish; see raffish.

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  1. from Middle English raft, ræft, rafte, a rafter, spar, beam, from Icelandic raptr (raftr), a rafter, beam (r final being sign of nominative case); = Swedish Danish raft, rafter; with formative -t, perhaps from Icelandic rāf, ræfr, a roof, = Old High German rāfo, Middle High German rāvo, German dial. raff, a spar, rafter; cf. Greek ὀροφος, a roof, ἐρέφειν, cover. Cf. rafter.
  2. from raft, n.
  3. A variant of raff, apparently by confusion with raft.
  4. Origin uncertain; cf. raff.
 

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