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

Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..

Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..

Run :: Run (n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes..

Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..

Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

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

Adit :: Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..

Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.

Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.

Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.

Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

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..

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..

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..

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