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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Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11..
Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..
Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
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..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
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