Definition of drift

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Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..

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Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..
Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..
Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..
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 (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Drumlin :: Drumlin (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion..
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..
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