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

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

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

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..

Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..

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

Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.

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..

Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..

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

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..

Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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