Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..

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Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..
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..
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven..
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..
Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
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