noun
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the act of drifting
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matter carried along or deposited by drifting
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the amount by which an aircraft or vessel has drifted from its intended course
Etymology
Origin of driftage
Example Sentences
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The marls must have been formed largely by the driftage of sand and clay, while some of the limestone was6 produced by accumulation of corals and shells.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William
The driftage through the Big House was decreasing.
From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack
Fuel coal is also too pure to have been accumulated by driftage.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
And now both their minds were Londonward, where all the tides and driftage and currents of human thought still meet and swirl together.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Among caves of driftage may be classed some of those near Liège, in Belgium, and, partially at least, those of Kent's Hole and Brixham, in England.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William
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