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Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

Rift :: Rift (n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Husbandry :: Husbandry (n.) Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.

Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..

Unthriftihead :: Unthriftihead (n.) Alt. of Unthriftihoo.

Thriftless :: Thriftless (a.) Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs.

Husbandly :: Husbandly (a.) Frugal; thrifty.

Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel..

Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece..

Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..

Slipthrift :: Slipthrift (n.) A spendthrift.

Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..

Rive :: Rive (n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.

Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..

Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..

Broach :: Broach (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift..

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