n. A person who transports a raft of floating logs downstream to a sawmill
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A man engaged in rafting.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A man employed in the management of a raft.
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n. someone who travels by raft
Word Usage
"“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.”"