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

Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.

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

Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..

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

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..

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

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..

Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..

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

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

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..

Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

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

Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..

Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

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

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..

Driftway :: Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11..

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