Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The general movement or resultant of the wind, disregarding minor deflections; the general movement of clouds or storms or flotsam carried along by the wind.
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Examples
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Up and down the grassy dips and yellow piles of wind-drift, and in and out of the ferny coves and tussocks of rush and ragwort, they scamper, and caper, and chase one another, in joy that the winter is banished at last, and the glorious sun come back again.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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There is the greatest wind-drift of all just beyond the turn, and there our Strong Men were almost buried.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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There is the greatest wind-drift of all just beyond the turn, and there our Strong Men were almost buried.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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Up and down the grassy dips and yellow piles of wind-drift, and in and out of the ferny coves and tussocks of rush and ragwort, they scamper, and caper, and chase one another, in joy that the winter is banished at last, and the glorious sun come back again.
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You see, my back yard must have been in the perfect wind-drift line for the balloons launched at the
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The deck is pretty well protected from wind-drift.
Hall of Record 2009
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