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overdrifts

overdrifts is the plural of overdrift.

overdrifts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overdrift.

Meaning of overdrift

Noun

overdrift (countable and uncountable, plural overdrifts)

  1. An act of overdrifting.
    • Four horses with a drag accomplished in one day the moving of 75 feet of this extreme in-shore end of the stone-work, and its distribution in the place mentioned proving sufficient to raise the low place to a height to insure the stoppage of any further sand overdrift for the present.1873, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Report of the Chief of Engineers, page 1032
  2. Material that has drifted over something.
    • Soul of mine Drink in their matchless aspect as they lift Their circling range, obscured by overdrift Of cloud, or stand out sharply, line on line Of august shapes, upon whose foreheads shine The dawn's bright earnest and the late last Gift Of day, the brief empurpled gleams that shift Through...1896, Julia Boynton Green, “At Redlands”, in The Land of Sunshine, volumes 5-6, page 195

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Questions about overdrifts

What is overdrifts the plural of?
Overdrifts is the plural of overdrift.

Words near overdrifts in the dictionary

  1. overdried
  2. overdries
  3. overdrift
  4. overdrifted
  5. overdrifting
  6. overdrifts
  7. overdrink
  8. overdrinking
  9. overdrinks
  10. overdrive
  11. overdriven

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