Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Deviation from a set course caused by drifting.
- noun Matter that has been carried along or deposited by air or water currents.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which is drifted; drift.
- noun Nautical, the amount of deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
- noun In gunnery and archery, windage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
- noun Anything that drifts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Deviation from aship 'scourse due toleeway . - noun Anything that
drifts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting
Etymologies
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Examples
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And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star - driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men.
Chapter 21 2010
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I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began!
Chapter 21 2010
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Elsinore, this time due to me and my own stubbornness, is rolling in the wind and heading nowhere in a light breeze at the rate of nothing but driftage per hour.
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
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Despite the fact that by his manoeuvre the Arangi had been hove to, he knew that windage and sea-driftage would quickly send her away from the swimming puppy.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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So, instead of making speed through the water toward deep sea, I hove the Elsinore to on the starboard tack with no more than leeway driftage to the west and south.
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
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Also they were scrubs – the dirty driftage of the fight game, without honor, without efficiency.
The Mexican 2010
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The sunset fires, refracted from the cloud-driftage of the autumn sky, bathed the canyon with crimson, in which ruddy-limbed mandronos and wine-wooded manzanitas burned and smoldered.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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The driftage through the Big House was decreasing.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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Lavina, famed for her good heart even among the driftage of
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I tell you this vagrant fisherman, this wandering preacher, this piece of driftage from Galilee, commanded me.
Chapter 17 2010
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