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Definition of drift

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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..

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

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..

Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.

Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

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

Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..

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

Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..

Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.

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..

Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..

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

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

Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..

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

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

Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.

Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like..