Definition of drift

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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..

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Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
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..
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
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..
Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11..
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