Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Wood floating in or washed up by a body of water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wood drifted or floated by water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wood drifted or floated by water.
- noun Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Floating piece of
wood thatdrifts with the current - noun Such a piece of wood that has been cast
ashore
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
Etymologies
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Examples
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He has since gone on to become a renowned silversmith, and my mother has gone on to live with the risen Christ, but I think of that creche ... truth and reality shine through that night, even in driftwood and stone.
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It is just to explain the lack of clarity in the image showing the driftwood, which is attached with copper wire to a metal electrical conduit pipe found under the garage deck.
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This patch of garden is so difficult to grow things in, the driftwood was a good addition.
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These are usually of driftwood, which is brought by the ocean currents from the Yukon.
The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo Ernest William Hawkes
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In the reception area, a low-slung sectional upholstered in tufted white leather is decidedly Nordic, while pale oak cabinetry recalls driftwood lying on a frozen shore.
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So, one would expect "marine debris" to encompass natural, biodegradable material such as driftwood, kelp, seagrass, leaves and coconuts.
Wallace J Nichols: Cleaning Up the Language Around Ocean Pollution 2009
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Someone challenged me with "driftwood," which yielded a porn site.
Nokes's Law Richard Nokes 2005
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Someone challenged me with "driftwood," which yielded a porn site.
September 2005 Dr. Richard Scott Nokes 2005
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Someone challenged me with "driftwood," which yielded a porn site.
Archive 2005-09-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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This fire was made of that peculiar kind of driftwood whose flames show marvellous rainbow tints.
Patty in Paris Carolyn Wells 1902
treeseed commented on the word driftwood
a town in Texas, USA
February 27, 2008