“driftage”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

driftage

释义

driftage|ˈdrɪftɪdʒ|
[f. drift v. + -age.]
1. The process or operation of drifting.
1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 414 There is always a driftage of the [sounding] line.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Driftage, the amount due to lee-way.1877Le Conte Elem. Geol. (1879) 135 The rate of peat-growth depends upon..the manner of accumulation, whether entirely by growth of plants in situ, or partly by driftage.
2. concr. Drifted material. (Cf. wreckage.)
1768J. Byron Narr. Patagonia (ed. 2) 63 No hopes of any valuable driftage from [the wreck].1835Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. 15 June (1883) 13 Among the heaps of sea-weed there were sometimes small pieces of painted wood, bark, and other driftage.

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