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snow-drift
Also snowdrift.
[f. snow n.1 Cf. Norw. dial. snjodrift, -driv, ON. snjódrif, Sw. snödrifva, Da. snedrive.]
1. A heap or mass of snow driven together, or piled up, by the action of the wind.
a1300Cursor M. 9932 Wit-in þis castel þat sua es tift, Þat quitter es þan snau drif [read drift, but the Gött. MS. has on drift]. 1600Fairfax Tasso xx. cxxxvi, As against the warm'th of Titans fire, Snow drifts consume. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxv, I would rather keep watch on a snow-drift. 1860G. A. Spottiswoode Vac. Tour 96 We were soon planted in a snow-drift, fifty or sixty yards long, higher than the carriage. 1874Green Short Hist. ii. §4. 72 He..helped with his own hands to clear a road through the snowdrifts.
transf.1864Daily Telegr. 16 July, There are snowdrifts of pearls of great price.
2. A driving mass or cloud of snow; snow driven before the wind.
1836Uncle Philip's Convers. Whale Fishery 200 He..never walked farther from the ships than a mile, for fear of being overtaken by a snow-drift. 1892J. Lumsden Sheephead & Trotters 137 The snawdrift, o'er Soutra, in tempest was blawing. |