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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.
v. t.
To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
a.
Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
v. i.
to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
n.
Wood drifted or floated by water.
n.
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
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.
n.
Same as Drift, 11.
n.
Anything that drifts.
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.
n.
Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
v. i.
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
v. t.
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
a.
That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
n.
The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
a.
Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
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n.
A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
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