Definition of drift

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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..

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Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
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..
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
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..
Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..
Dune :: Dune (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds..
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
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..
Boulder :: Boulder (n.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift..
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