driftwind
English
Etymology
drift + wind
Noun
driftwind (plural driftwinds)
- A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for driftwind in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)