Definition of drift

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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..

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Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..
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..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..
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