Definition of drift

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

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Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..
Broach :: Broach (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
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..
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..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..
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