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

Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..

Driftway :: Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11..

Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..

Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..

Tendency :: Tendency (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result..

Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim..

Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.

Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..

Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..

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..

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

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..

Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.

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 into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..

Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.

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