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ˈwind-drift rare.
[f. wind n.1 + drift n.]
a. A drift or current of wind.
1887Morris Odyssey xi. 400 With the wind-drift stirred against thee, and the whirl-blast laden with woe. 1921Discovery Apr. 89/2 The drifts of vessels in the ice..show..a wind-drift which can be paralleled in all the other oceans.
b. The action of wind currents, esp. on water.
1898Geogr. Jrnl. June 662 The sand so produced is rounded by wind-drift in an unmistakable manner, the grains being entirely different from those of sea-sand. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 257 This patch [of effluent] is subject to wind-drift and can be carried directly on to beaches. 1967Ibid. V. 103 Since the cross sections of these two straits are much less than that of the throat of the Celtic Sea much surface wind drift water must return to the Atlantic some other way. |