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Adit :: Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..

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..

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

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

Drumlin :: Drumlin (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion..

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

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece..

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

Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

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

Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..

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 (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like..

Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..

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