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Rafting   Listen
noun
Rafting  n.  The business of making or managing rafts.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rafting" Quotes from Famous Books



... in to Engineer Lassen, Inspector of rafting sections, and he took me on as he had promised, though it was late in the season now. To begin with, I am to make a tour of the water and see where the logs have gathered thickest, noting down the places on a chart. He is quite a good fellow, the engineer, only still very young. ...
— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun

... this strange light, the Soldan fierce appeared Dreadful to those that round about him been, As to poor sailors, when huge storms are reared, With lightning flash the rafting seas are seen; Some fled away, because his strength they feared, Some bolder gainst him bent their weapons keen, And forward night, in evils and mischiefs pleased, Their dangers hid, and dangers ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso

... falling to pieces. The mules, donkeys, and ponies gave the best results, but do not abound in sufficient quantities to enable an army in Afghanistan to dispense with camels. A successful experiment in rafting, from Jelalabad to Dakka, was tried. The rafts consisted of inflated skins lashed together with a light framework; between June 4-13, seven thousand skins were used, and, in all, 885 soldiers and one ...
— Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute • Theo. F. Rodenbough

... the owner of the freight steamer greatly, since he had a brother who was in the business of rafting lumber, and he asked Tom to give him the ...
— The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes • Arthur M. Winfield

... in detail and grasped its parts as a connected whole, the next step is to observe its relation to the river, to the rafts and rafting-boats, and further back to the pineries and logging-camps up the river. (Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.) The occupations and sights along the Upper Mississippi and its head-waters, the pineries, and even the spring floods, are intimately connected, causally, with the saw-mills and ...
— The Elements of General Method - Based on the Principles of Herbart • Charles A. McMurry

... to carelessness so much as to the lack of discipline of the crew and to the fact that they were indifferent seamen at best. The man at the wheel in particular, a Limerick man, had had no experience with salt water beyond that of rafting timber on the Shannon between the Quebec vessels and the shore. He was afraid of the huge seas that rose out of the murk astern and bore down upon him, and he was more given to cowering away from their threatened impact than he was ...
— When God Laughs and Other Stories • Jack London



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