driftwind
nounEtymology From drift + wind.
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Archaic A wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
- drift-winds force to raging1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):