indrift

present singular third person indrifts · participle present indrifting · participle past indrifted · past indrifted

1. To drift in.

   However, restoration by indrifting of replacement organisms is continuous, and any gaps in marine communities are likely quickly filled in.

   1995, Attilio Bisio, Sharon Boots, Encyclopedia of Energy Technology and the Environment, →ISBN

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   It was as one of the old Cinque Ports which the departing sea and the ever indrifting sand have left high and dry, unapproachable by water, a port only in name.

   1876, Edward Dutton Cook, A Book of the Play

   She took her spirit-lamp from her dressing-bag and lit the feeble flame, a poor light enough, but by it they stuffed up cracks and crannies through which the snow indrifted ; they must exclude, if possible, the snow which melted in the carriage, adding dampness to the biting cold.

   1894, Beatrice Whitby, Mary Fenwick's Daughter: A Novel, page 272

plural indrifts

1. The act of indrifting.

   There is little sign of indrift from nearby habitats, the accumulation probably providing a good and little disturbed record of brachiopods that grew there.

   1980, New Zealand Geological Survey, New Zealand Geological Survey paleontological bulletin

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   Thus often does the thunder-cloud, advancing slowly towards us, seem to be propelled (apparently against the wind), so as to induce us to thing ourselves safe from its approach; but this is a deception, the current blowing from us towards it being but an indrift towards the higher temperature of the cloud, and the attraction caused by its electrical nature creating a partial or comparative vacuum.

   1876, Josiah Crampton, The three heavens, page 38

   With the present indrift of radical legislation to manhood suffrage and paid politicians in England, such lessons as we can draw from the experience of America are especially valuable.

   1888, James Howard Bridge, Uncle Sam at Home, page 166