driftage

English

Etymology

drift +‎ -age

Noun

driftage (countable and uncountable, plural driftages)

1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
2. Anything that drifts.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “driftage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Translations

Deviation from a ship's course

• Bulgarian: дрейф m (drejf)

Anagrams

• fregatid