Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

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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..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
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..
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like..
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..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Drivebolt :: Drivebolt (n.) A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
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..
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..
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..
Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..
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