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Definition of Driftwood
1. Noun. Wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore.
Definition of Driftwood
1. n. Wood drifted or floated by water.
Definition of Driftwood
1. Noun. Floating piece of wood that drifts with the current ¹
2. Noun. Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Driftwood
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Medical Definition of Driftwood
1. 1. Wood drifted or floated by water. 2. Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. "The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood." (new Your Times) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Driftwood
Literary usage of Driftwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"... wild thronging of the withered faces, At this foul nightmare of The Street.
Somewhere is Peace— Peace of the wide blue spaces. . . . driftwood To the ..."
2. History of America Before Columbus: According to Documents and Approved Authors by Peter De Roo (1900)
"Where this driftwood—these trees floating between the ice—originated is a puzzle
to us after careful consideration. ..."
3. Bowdoin Verse: A Collection of Poems Contributed by Students and Alumni to edited by John Clair Minot (1907)
"Sometimes there is a haven Along some island shore, Where the driftwood finds a
shelter, ... And often the bits of driftwood Meet others upon the sea, ..."
4. Formation of Coal Beds by John James Stevenson (1913)
"The great mass of driftwood carried down by the ... A bay off Port Dickson was
found barred by a palisade of driftwood. 41 S. Powers, "Floating Islands," ..."
5. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"THE FIRE OF driftwood WE sat within the farmhouse old, Whose windows, looking
o'er the ... driftwood."
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