driftwoodn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: drift v., drift n., wood n.¹

Etymology: < either drift v. or drift n. (compare sense drift n. 9 at that entry) + wood n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdrift-wood.

1. Wood floating on, or cast ashore by, the water. Esp. wood carried down by a river. Formerly frequently U.S.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > (wood) floating on water or cast ashore

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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 743 They have no wood but drift.]

1633 T. James Strange Voy. 26 There was great store of drift wood.

1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 42 Forobieff built another small vessel with drift-wood.

1785 G. Washington Diary 3 Aug. (1925) II. 396 It would probably be frequently choaked with drift wood, Ice, and other rubbish.

1785 G. Washington Diary 25 Jan. (1925) IV. 79 The river there is..full of small islands occasioned by drift wood lodging on the rocks.

1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. 22 Oct. (1898) 26 The men Waided over and geathered drift Wood for the night.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 72 [We] made a fire..with the drift-wood.

1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings I. iii. 47 The drift-wood choked the channel.

1850 H. C. Watson Camp-fires Revol. 67 That exposed our boats to being all the time tangled in the drift-wood and bushes.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn vii. 55 The river was coming up pretty fast, and lots of drift-wood going by on the rise.

2. figurative. Also attributive.

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1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) (D.A.E.) Kendall will cut a ‘swell’ at our next drift-wood training.

1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks 224 A lodging place for political drift-wood.

1907 Daily Chron. 23 July 4/6 The metropolis attracts human driftwood from all quarters.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	driftwood
释义	driftwoodn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: drift v., drift n., wood n.¹ Etymology: < either drift v. or drift n. (compare sense drift n. 9 at that entry) + wood n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdrift-wood. 1. Wood floating on, or cast ashore by, the water. Esp. wood carried down by a river. Formerly frequently U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > (wood) floating on water or cast ashore drift1598 driftwood1633 drift-timber1850 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 743 They have no wood but drift.] 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 26 There was great store of drift wood. 1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 42 Forobieff built another small vessel with drift-wood. 1785 G. Washington Diary 3 Aug. (1925) II. 396 It would probably be frequently choaked with drift wood, Ice, and other rubbish. 1785 G. Washington Diary 25 Jan. (1925) IV. 79 The river there is..full of small islands occasioned by drift wood lodging on the rocks. 1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. 22 Oct. (1898) 26 The men Waided over and geathered drift Wood for the night. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 72 [We] made a fire..with the drift-wood. 1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings I. iii. 47 The drift-wood choked the channel. 1850 H. C. Watson Camp-fires Revol. 67 That exposed our boats to being all the time tangled in the drift-wood and bushes. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn vii. 55 The river was coming up pretty fast, and lots of drift-wood going by on the rise. 2. figurative. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) (D.A.E.) Kendall will cut a ‘swell’ at our next drift-wood training. 1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks 224 A lodging place for political drift-wood. 1907 Daily Chron. 23 July 4/6 The metropolis attracts human driftwood from all quarters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1633
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