The pack as far as the eye could reach was in a condition of chaos, much rafted and consolidated, with very large pressure-ridges in all directions.
But about 400 yards of heavy ice, including old rafted pack, still separated the 'Endurance' from the water, and reluctantly I had to admit that further effort was useless.
During the night of the 3rd we heard the ice grinding to the eastward, and in the morning we saw that young ice was rafted 8 to 10 ft.
The masts were rafted and floated--or towed by sloops--to Fort Howe, where they were stored for shipment in the mast pond.
James Simonds writes, "We shall cut Mr. Hazen's frame in some place near the water where it may be rafted at any time.
In April and May of 1839, Boyce rafted his logs with poles and ropes made of basswood strings.
Rivers too swift to swim were rafted on pine logs, cut and braced together while the cavalcade waited.
From Detroit overland to the Illinois, or Ohio, which he rafted down to the Mississippi, and then taking to canoe turned north.
He rafted many of his logs to Port William or Leavenworth, and usually helped to take them down; and there was much joking about where he learned the rafting business.
He once told his sister that the Border Ruffians never knew what a service they did him when they rafted him, for he had leisure to think while he was going down the river.
Down the yellow and turgid path of swollen waters each spring went huge rafted masses of logs manned by brawny fellows who at other times never saw the world that lay "down below.
The city man tossed restlessly and once looking out across the stretch of the rafted logs, he saw a single figure stripped to the skin in the sheeted down-pour of cold rain.
Smith, Chief Engineer of the Army of the Cumberland, had established a saw-mill with an old engine at Bridgeport for the purpose of getting out lumber from logs rafted down the river, with which to construct pontoons.
Here, on high ground overlooking the stream, was posted Battery McAloon to keep the Confederates back from the river, so that timber and firewood could be rafted down to the besieged army.
Timber for house building purposes is rafted from points on the Amoor where trees are larger.
Timber for both Chinese and Russian use is cut in the forests up the Amoor and rafted down.
Timber comes from points higher up the Amoor, where it is cut and rafted down.
Thus he obtained a rough registration of the men going to the up-country; but thousands passed Victoria altogether and went in by pack-train from Okanagan or rafted across from Puget Sound.
One of the companies who rafted down the Fraser came from the county where I was born; and though they preceded my day, their terrible experiences were a household word.
Mr. Skinner subsequently razed the building to the ground, rafted it through Palmasola Bay into the Manatee, and erected it on its present site, where it has stood in an unfinished condition during the past five years.
Rafts could not come down the river, so the mills had no work to do, for the logs on hand at the beginning of the cold snap had been sawed into long rough planks, and piled in the lumber-yards, ready to be rafted as soon as the thaw came.
He hadn't no trade learned, neither,--just rafted with men as bad as him.
The mules are blindfolded and pushed off the steep bank into the water and rafted across.
The owner of the hacienda at Pasaje is required to keep a record of all passengers rafted across the Apurimac, but he explains significantly that some who pass are too hurried to write their names in his book.
The bolt piles grew; they were hurled swiftly down the chute into the dwindling river, rafted to the mill.
Not much satisfaction for emissaries who had forded ice-rafted rivers and had tramped the drifted forests for three hundred miles.
He was coming straight towards us, so we got down behind the rafted ice and awaited his approach.
When ice floes came together they rafted one on to the other and shattered fragments stuck up in all directions.
Some were very heavy looking, having quantities of rafted ice on them.
For twenty-two consecutive years herafted lumber to Baltimore.
On the swollen stream it wasrafted to Baltimore, Harrisburg and other places.
Hay for the winter provender of the stock is made about one hundred miles up the river, where there are good meadows or marshes, and whence it is rafted down in boats in September.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rafted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
