Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

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Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Boulder :: Boulder (n.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift..
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..
Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..
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 (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..
Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
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..
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