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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Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
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..
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..
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..
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..
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
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..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
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