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

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

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 (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

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

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

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

Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim..

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

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