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Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..

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..

Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..

Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on 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..

Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.

Adit :: Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..

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

Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..

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

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

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

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

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..

Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..

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