Definition of drift

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

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Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Drumlin :: Drumlin (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Dune :: Dune (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds..
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
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..
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.
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or 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..
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
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