drift

• They kicked into the drift, scooped with their hands, searched Hidden in the drift was the cache of equipment they had placed there against possible emergencies. —  068 - Fortress Of Solitude
• The first kraal we reached after leaving the drift was a wonderfully picturesque place, a group of some thirty or forty huts in a little grassy basin, almost completely enclosed by huge granite kopjes. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
• On we went, straight along the valley, crossing drift after drift; - a drift is the bed of a stream more or less dry; in which sometimes you are drowned, sometimes only POUNDED, as was our hap. —  Letters from the Cape
• The top of the drift was about two feet above his head. —  The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger
• The banks of the Modder at this drift are about forty feet high and almost precipitous, the path down to the drift being little better than a track worn at a long diagonal down the bank. —  The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900

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