Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

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Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
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..
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.
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 (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..
Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
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 (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
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..
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
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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