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raindrift en · NOUN

Etymology

From rain + drift.

Meanings

1. A sheet of rain blown by the wind.
   • The fierce wind drove a raindrift in at the open door, as two men, drenched from head to foot, but vested as Benedictine monks, entered. 1843, John Mason Neale, Agnes de Tracy, page 55:
   • Then there was stamping on the gravel and murmurs of voices; then silence preceding the snap of a whip, and, finally, a rolling of wheels down the avenue, lost in the roaring of the wind and the rattle of the dismal raindrifts[…] 1905, The Irish Monthly, volume 33, page 379:
   • Tiny pools diversified the surface of the well-made road, which, as they advanced farther and farther into the open country, was swept by raindrifts, driven furiously before the rising wind, that whistled through the naked trees[…] 1864, James Augustus St. John, Weighed in the balance, page 40:

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