Definition of drift

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

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Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
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..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
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..
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Drift :: Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Dune :: Dune (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds..
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
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..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
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