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单词 snowdrift
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snowdriftn.

Forms: Also snow-drift.
Etymology: < snow n.1 Compare Norwegian dialect snjodrift, -driv, Old Norse snjódrif, Swedish snödrifva, Danish snedrive.
1. A heap or mass of snow driven together, or piled up, by the action of the wind.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > an accumulation or expanse of snow > snow-drift
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writhe1594
wreath1692
snow-wreath1818
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9932 Wit-in þis castel þat sua es tift, þat quitter es þan snau drif [read drift; Gött. snau on drift].
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. cxxxvi. 390 As against the warm'th of Titans fire, Snow drifts consume.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. x. 185 I would rather keep watch on a snow-drift.
1861 G. A. Spottiswoode in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 96 We were soon planted in a snow-drift, fifty or sixty yards long, higher than the carriage.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §4. 72 He..helped with his own hands to clear a road through the snowdrifts.
in extended use.1864 Daily Tel. 16 July There are snowdrifts of pearls of great price.
2. A driving mass or cloud of snow; snow driven before the wind.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > the falling of snow > snow driven by wind
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1836 Uncle Philip's Conversat. Whale Fishery 200 He..never walked farther from the ships than a mile, for fear of being overtaken by a snow-drift.
1892 J. Lumsden Sheep-head & Trotters 137 The snawdrift, o'er Soutra, in tempest was blawing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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