Definition of drift

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

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Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
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..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a 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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
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..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..
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..
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..
Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
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