driftage

/drif-tij/US // ˈdrɪf tɪdʒ //UK // (ˈdrɪftɪdʒ) //

漂移,漂泊,漂流,漂流瓶

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the action or an amount of drifting.
- : drifted matter.
- : Navigation. the amount of drift away from a set course as a result of wind and currents.
- : windage.

Fuel coal is also too pure to have been accumulated by driftage.
No more man-wrought driftage came our way, but other signs multiplied.
Experience has given directions for its use, avoiding some of the grosser causes of error from driftage and other causes.
Also they were scrubs—the dirty driftage of the fight game, without honor, without efficiency.
Among the heaps of sea-weed there were sometimes small pieces of painted wood, bark, and other driftage.