Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A current produced by the force of the wind.

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  • Now there is a great antarctic drift-current, which flows round the Cape of Good Hope and divides there, one half flowing past the east coast of Africa and the other setting across the Indian Ocean.

    A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

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