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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
raft .
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Examples
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Some were mountains of the sea, towering icebergs rising to jagged peaks a hundred feet or more above the surface, while others were flat, raftlike floes ever collapsing-amid the roiling tempest of the arctic spring.
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A crew of Selkie workmen leapt from the high riverbank into the water below, splashing just upstream of a small raftlike watercraft carrying a load of metal poles.
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A crew of Selkie workmen leapt from the high riverbank into the water below, splashing just upstream of a small raftlike watercraft carrying a load of metal poles.
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Choose from four types of watercraft: oar rafts (the guide does all the work), paddle rafts (you paddle and the guide steers), motorized rafts (long raftlike boats with a specialized outboard motor), and traditional dories (charming 17-foot/5.2-m wood boats that carry three passengers and a guide).
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Choose from four types of watercraft: oar rafts (the guide does all the work), paddle rafts (you paddle and the guide steers), motorized rafts (long raftlike boats with a specialized outboard motor), and traditional dories (charming 17-foot/5.2-m wood boats that carry three passengers and a guide).
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Choose from four types of watercraft: oar rafts (the guide does all the work), paddle rafts (you paddle and the guide steers), motorized rafts (long raftlike boats with a specialized outboard motor), and traditional dories (charming 17-foot/5.2-m wood boats that carry three passengers and a guide).
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Some were mountains of the sea, towering icebergs rising to jagged peaks a hundred feet or more above the surface, while others were flat, raftlike floes ever collapsing-amid the roiling tempest of the arctic spring.
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She loaded her luggage aboard the raftlike construction, first removing from her bags another wand, this one shaped like a wooden screw such as might be used in a fruit press.
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There it seemed that a number of small boats was being mustered and not a few raftlike structures, doubtless improvised from materials within, and about, the citadel.
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I was equally puzzled for the moment, for although our good ship rested as peacefully on the bosom of the deep as if she were moored, the raftlike bundle of spars, to which she had been made fast the night before, was now no longer to be seen bobbing up ahead, athwart our hawser as then.
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