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Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..

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..

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

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

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

Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..

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

Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.

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

Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..

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..

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.

Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

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

Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..

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..

Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..

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

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