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Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.

Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..

Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.

Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.

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

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

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..

Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..

Drift :: Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel..

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

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