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

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

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

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..

Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

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.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.

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. 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..

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..

Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..

Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..

Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

Scope :: Scope (n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object..

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

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