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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..

Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.

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..

Tendency :: Tendency (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result..

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

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

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..

Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..

Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.

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

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

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

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..

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..

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

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

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..

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