Sekirov Dictionary

overdrift

noun 2
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 3

noun2

•
An act of overdrifting.
- For accurate stopping, the drive must incorporate means for minimizing inertia overdrift. — 1954
•
Material that has drifted over something.
- Overdrifting of snow forms huge drifts or overdrifts, the shearing of which usually starts an avalanche. — 2003

verb2

•
To drift too far.
- Accordingly, there is the tendency of the power stroke to overdrift the cessation of the travel signal. — 1954
•
To drift on top of.
- 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 — 1877

adjective1

•
Having gearing that turns the millstone by means of a pole that rises above it.
- The overdrift method in smock mills may be seen at Punnetts Town, and the underdrift at Shipley. — 1979

forms

overdrifted · overdrifting · overdrifts

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