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driftling

noun

Etymology

From drift + -ling.

  1. derived from *dʰreybʰ-✻
  2. derived from *driftiz✻
  3. derived from *drift✻
  4. derived from drift
  5. suffixed as driftling — “drift + ling”

Definitions

  1. One who is carried about, drifts, or wanders aimlessly

    One who is carried about, drifts, or wanders aimlessly; a drifter; wanderer; traveller.

    • The low note is the voice Of the Spirit, God, Love, Saying. "Driftling! rejoice, There is harbor Above."
    • The fact of their existence at Nagasaki having been communicated to the American commissioner at Canton, the sloop of war, Preble, was dispatched to bring away these driftlings. She arrived off the harbour of Nagasaki on the 17th of April.

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