Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. · Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. · A thick crowd of aquatic birds, particularly a group floating on the surface of the water. · A group of aquatic mammals, especially otters and especially when visible on the surface of the water.
To convey on a raft. · To make into a raft. · To travel by raft. · To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
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