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Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..

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..

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

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..

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..

Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..

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..

Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.

Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..

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

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

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

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

Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..

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

Boulder :: Boulder (n.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift..

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

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..

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