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driftwoods

driftwoods is the plural 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 driftwoods

What is driftwoods the plural of?
Driftwoods is the plural of driftwood.

Words near driftwoods in the dictionary

  1. driftwind
  2. driftwinds
  3. driftwood
  4. driftwood catfish
  5. driftwood catfishes
  6. driftwoods
  7. drifty
  8. Drigg
  9. Drigg and Carleton
  10. Driggars
  11. Driggers

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