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rafting

3.7

Joining logs into rafts to move them along a river

noun
/ˈræftɪŋ/

: flotación de troncos

The workers carefully arranged the logs for rafting down the river for transport.

Examples

As the different records show, each period of increased iceberg rafting is accompanied by drastic cooling of up to about 5 degrees Celsius.

Academic text (2002)
A working river with a long history of lumber rafting and saw milling—and of anarchy and violence—was transformed into a picturesque landscape largely through the powerful photographs of H. H. Bennett.

Academic text (1998)
They prepared the materials for rafting, ensuring everything was secured for the journey.
Appraisers rate the logs; a shovel loader sorts them into piles. They are bundled and then carried by giant front-end loaders to the shore for rafting to transfer ships.

Surface Forms

rafting singular

raftings plural

Morphology

rafting = raft (transparent) = raft + ing

This is a straightforward action noun built from the verb raft with the productive suffix -ing.

Etymology

Rafting comes from the word raft, which once meant 'a bundle of logs used as a floating platform'. In old times people tied logs together and floated them down rivers to move timber, so rafting meant assembling and sending logs by water.