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Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..

Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..

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

Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.

Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..

Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..

Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

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..

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..

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

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..

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

Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.

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

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

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

Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..

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