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Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..

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..

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..

Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..

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

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

Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.

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.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.

Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..

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..

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

Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.

Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..

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

Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.

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