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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..

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

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

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

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..

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

Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..

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..

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..

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.

Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven..

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

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

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..

Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..

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

Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

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

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