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Drift
·noun Anything driven at random. II. Drift ·noun A driving; a violent movement. III. Drift ·noun I...

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drift
The altered position of a vessel by current or falling to leeward when hove-to or lying-to in a gale...

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Mud
·vt To bury in mud. II. Mud ·vt To make muddy or turbid. III. Mud ·noun Earth and water mixed so a...

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mud
A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. Se...

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Star drift
·add. ·- Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from appa...

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drift-bolts
Commonly made of steel, are used as long punches for driving out other bolts. ...

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drift-ice
The debris of the main pack. (See open ice.) ...

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drift-net
A large net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and...

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drift-pieces
Solid pieces fitted at the drifts, forming the scrolls on the drifts: they are commonly mitred into ...

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drift-sail
A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...

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drift-way
Synonymous with lee-way. ...

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spoon-drift
A showery sprinkling of the water swept from the tops of the waves in a brisk gale. Driving snow is ...

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Sea mud
·- A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; — calle...

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mud lark
A fellow who goes about by the water side picking up coals, nails, or other articles in the mud. Als...

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mud-fat
adj. fat as mud, very fat. 1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 142: «There's half th...

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mud-fish
n. a fish of Westland, New Zealand, Neochanna apoda, Gunth. Guenther says Neochannais a «degraded f...

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mud-lark
n. another name for the Magpie-lark, Grallina picata (q.v.). ...

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mud-hen
The common name of the Virginia Rail ornithologists. It inhabits small streams and marshes. ...

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mud-turtle
The popular name of a reptile common in all parts of the United States. Marsh Tortoise and Mud Terra...

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mud-drags
Implements and machines for clearing rivers and docks. ...

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mud or ballast dredger
A vessel of 300 tons or more, fitted with steam-engine beams and metal buckets. By this powerful mac...

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mud-fish
The Lepidosiren, a very remarkable fish of the Gambia and other African rivers. ...

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mud-hole
An orifice with steam-tight doors in a marine engine, through which the deposit is removed from the ...

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mud-lands
The extensive marshes left dry by the retiring tide in estuaries and river mouths. ...

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mud-larks
People who grovel about bays and harbours at low water for anything they can find. ...

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mud-lighter
Large heavy punts which receive the mud or other matter from a dredging vessel. It is the Marie Salo...

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mud-pattens
Broad clogs used for crossing mud-lands in the south of England by those who take sea-fowl. ...

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mud-shores
Are not unfrequent on an open coast. The most remarkable instance, perhaps, is that of the Guiana; t...

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heavy drift-ice
Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...

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