Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man employed in the management of a raft.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man engaged in rafting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who transports a raft of floating logs downstream to a sawmill

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who travels by raft

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Examples

  • “This nonsense was created,” Hershel Parker points out, “when Mark Twain agreed to drop, from between the two paragraphs, the raftsman episode, which contained the reason for the decision not to ask anyone else but just to watch out for the town.”

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • “This nonsense was created,” Hershel Parker points out, “when Mark Twain agreed to drop, from between the two paragraphs, the raftsman episode, which contained the reason for the decision not to ask anyone else but just to watch out for the town.”

    “Experience of the text” 2009

  • AMOUNTED to something being a raftsman on such a craft as that.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

  • Flat and generally of sad aspect, the country of the raftsman lies remote and uncommended.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • I'm a heartbroken raftsman, from Greenville I came

    Jack Haggerty (3) 2000

  • It took a good raftsman to get a raft over the Falls.

    Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various

  • The Corporal was a slender, lantern-jawed, weasel-faced Monongahela raftsman, sharp as a steel-trap.

    Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

  • He might have been a sailor, or a scowman, or a hibernating raftsman.

    The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille

  • He was their raftsman; he had been seen out on the log boom, pike pole in hand, shoving logs in to the endless chain elevator that drew them up to the seas.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • During the week he thought frequently of telephoning up to Darrow and asking if they still had the same raftsman on the pay-roll, but his pride forbade this.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

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