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

Broach :: Broach (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift..

Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

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..

Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..

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

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

Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.

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

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

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..

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..

Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

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..

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