Word Meanings - DRIFTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.

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• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• COURSEY
  A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
• LEEWAY
  The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
• DEVIATION
  The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. Deviation of a falling body , that deviation
• COURSER
  A grallatorial bird of Europe , remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family. (more info) 1. One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• BLOCKING COURSE
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• CONCOURSE
  1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving
• BARGECOURSE
  A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.
• SCOURSE
  See SCORSE
• WATERCOURSE
  One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.
• WATER COURSE
  A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill. (more info) 1. A stream of water; a river or brook. Isa.
• STRINGCOURSE
  A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.
• RECOURSE
  1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. "Swift recourse of flushing blood." Spenser. Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. Preventive physic