drift is a Noun
[1] A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings. King Alisaunder (1332).
[2] The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose. South.
[3] Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. "Our drift was south." Hakluyt.
[4] The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim. He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general. Addison. Now thou knowest my drift. Sir W. Scott.
[5] That which is driven, forced, or urged along; as:
[6] Anything driven at random. "Some log . . . a useless drift." Dryden.
[7] 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. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.
[8] A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. [Obs.] Cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways). Fuller.
[9] The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. [R.] Knight.
[10] A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth`s surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
[11] In South Africa, a ford in a river.
[12] 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.
[13] A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
[14] A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
[15] A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
[16] The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
[17] The angle which the line of a ship`s motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
[18] The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
[19] 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.
[20] The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
[21] 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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