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driftage

driftage noun: deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

Noun

driftage (countable and uncountable, plural driftages)

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

driftage meaning in Tamil

driftage in Tamil

அடித்துச் செல்லப்படும் பொருள், காற்றோட்த்தினால் கப்பல் திசைமாறும் அளவு

Forms of driftage

pluraldriftages

Origin of driftage

From drift + -age.

Questions about driftage

What does driftage mean?
Driftage means deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
What is driftage in Tamil?
Driftage in Tamil is அடித்துச் செல்லப்படும் பொருள், காற்றோட்த்தினால் கப்பல் திசைமாறும் அளவு. See Driftage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is driftage?
Driftage is a noun.
What is the plural of driftage?
The plural of driftage is driftages.

Words near driftage in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driftage (page history and authors); driftage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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