1855,Elisha Kent Kane,Arctic explorations: The second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin:
We[…] got the brig a good bed in the rushingdrift [of ice].
2012, David L. Culp,The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage, Timber Press, page168:
Many of these ground-layer plants were placed in naturalisticdrifts to make it appear as if they were sowing themselves.
2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, inRAIL, number997, page39:
"During the winter, we get really bad snow conditions. We can go to eight inches of snow above the railhead, then the trains are stopped. It's usually more like four inches, but you get bigdrifts up towards Rannoch.
1655, Thomas Fuller,The History of theUniversity of Cambridge, since the Conquest,[London]:[[…] Iohn Williams[…]],→OCLC:
cattle coming over the bridge (with their greatdrifts doing much damage to the high ways)
Acollection of loose earth and rocks, orboulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth'ssurface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat ofcontinental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
1867, E. Andrews, "Observations on the Glacial Drift beneath the bed of Lake Michigan,"American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. 43, nos. 127-129,page 75:
It is there seen that at a distance from the valleys of streams, the old glacialdrift usually comes to the surface, and often rises into considerable eminences.
1589,Richard Hakluyt,The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation,[…], London:[…] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies toChristopher Barker,[…],→OCLC:
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
The act ormotion of drifting; theforce whichimpels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
1678,Robert South,Prevention of Sin an unvaluable Mercy, sermon preached at Christ-Church, Oxon on November 10, 1678
A bad man, being under thedrift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose.
A place (aford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
Thetendency of anact,argument,course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended;intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
A slightly taperedtool of steel for enlarging or shaping ahole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; abroach.
A tool used to pack down the composition contained in arocket, or likefirework.
A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
The difference between the size of abolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between thecircumference of ahoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
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Midway through the half, Argentine Tevez did begin todrift inside in order to exert his influence but by this stage Mick McCarthy's side had gone 1-0 up and looked comfortable.
(transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
