Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..

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Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
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..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
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..
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
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..
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
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