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/drɪft nɛt/ Listen

adjective

Drift adj. That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.

Drift anchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n.

Drift epoch (Geol.), the glacial epoch.

Drift net, a kind of fishing net.

Drift sail. Same as Drag sail. See under Drag, n.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drift net" Quotes from Famous Books

... and gazing straight before her, towards the harbour's mouth. The boat was one of the class that serves along that coast for hook-and-line as well as drift net fishing, clinker-built, about twenty-seven feet in the keel, and nine in beam. It had no deck beyond a small cuddy forward, on top of which a light hoar-frost was gathering as they moved. The minister stood beside the girl, ...

— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch