Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.

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Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.
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..
Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..
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..
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
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..
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..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
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