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Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..

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..

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..

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

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

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

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..

Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..

Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..

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

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..

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

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.

Tendency :: Tendency (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result..

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

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

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

Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..

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