Word Meanings - SNOWDRIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bank of drifted snow.

Related words: (words related to SNOWDRIFT)

• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• DRIFTPIN
  A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
• DRIFTLESS
  Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
• DRIFTAGE
  1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
• DRIFTWEED
  Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.
• DRIFT
  The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. Knight. (more info) drift snowdrift, Dan. drift, impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common, 1. A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him away with drift
• DRIFTY
  Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
• DRIFTWAY
  See 11 (more info) 1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.
• DRIFTWIND
  A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.
• DRIFTWOOD
  1. Wood drifted or floated by water. 2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.
• SPINDRIFT
  See MARR
• SNOWDRIFT
  A bank of drifted snow.
• ADRIFT
  Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.
• SPOONDRIFT
  Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.
• STAR DRIFT
  Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from apparent change of place due to solar motion.-- ## = star streaming --