overdrift
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The overdrift method in smock mills may be seen at Punnetts Town, and the underdrift at Shipley."
- "In an overdrift mill this gear is mounted on the quant, in an underdrift mill on the stone spindle."
- "For cleanliness, experienced millers prefer an 'overdrift' mill (as, indeed windmills should be, for lightness and efficiency of driving gears), because underdrift gearing becomes very dirty and clogged with a compound of meal dust and grease, besides being generally inaccessible for repairs and adjustments."
- "Green be those downs and dells above the sea, Smooth-green for ever, by the plough unhurt, Nor overdrifted by their neighbouring sands, Where first I saw you ;"
- "Overdrifting of snow forms huge drifts or overdrifts, the shearing of which usually starts an avalanche."
- "It seemed as if the sand had not had time to overdrift the detritus of one campaign before a new deposit of ruin had been left behind."
Etymology
From over- + drift.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over