DRIFTWOOD

driftwood

(noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

driftwood (usually uncountable, plural driftwoods)

A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current.

Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore.

Source: Wiktionary


Drift"wood`, n.

1. Wood drifted or floated by water.

2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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