Definition of drift

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

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Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Drift :: Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
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..
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 angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
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..
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
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.) 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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..
Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.
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..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
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