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drift-wood

drift-wood is the alternative form of driftwood.

Meaning of driftwood

Noun

driftwood (usually uncountable, plural driftwoods)

  1. (usually) Floating wood that drifts with the current of a body of water.
    • Every wave on the Atlantic was like a dead seagull dragging its driftwood artillery from horizon to horizon.1967, Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
  2. (usually) Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore.
    • Commonly the bear makes a stand in driftwood on a bank, or on a log that has fallen into or across a stream.1915 April, Enos A. Mills, The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 198–199

Questions about drift-wood

What is drift-wood the alternative form of?
Drift-wood is the alternative form of driftwood.

Words near drift-wood in the dictionary

  1. drift seed
  2. drift seeds
  3. drift space
  4. drift spaces
  5. drift wood
  6. drift-wood
  7. driftage
  8. driftages
  9. driftbolt
  10. driftbolts
  11. drifted

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