Word Meanings - DRIFTPIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.

Related words: (words related to DRIFTPIN)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• DRIFTPIN
  A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
• DRIFTLESS
  Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• DRIFTAGE
  1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
• DRIFTWEED
  Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• DRIFT
  The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. Knight. (more info) drift snowdrift, Dan. drift, impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common, 1. A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him away with drift
• DRIFTY
  Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
• DRIFTWAY
  See 11 (more info) 1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.
• SMOOTH
  Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding,
• SMOOTH-TONGUED
  Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
• SMOOTHBORE
  Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.
• DRIFTWIND
  A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.
• SPINDRIFT
  See MARR
• SNOWDRIFT
  A bank of drifted snow.
• ADRIFT
  Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.
• SPOONDRIFT
  Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.