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

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