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Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..

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Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..

Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..

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

Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

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

Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..

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..

Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..

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..

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

Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

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

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

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

Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..

Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.

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..