Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

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Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.
Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
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..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Drumlin :: Drumlin (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion..
Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..
Scope :: Scope (n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like..
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..
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