(At sea) deviation from the intended course

Usage examples of driftage.

I tell you this vagrant fisherman, this wandering preacher, this piece of driftage from Galilee, commanded me.

And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with stardriftage as the earth is by the drifts of men.

But not until a bit of underwater driftage swirled past one did he realize he was seeing the watery depths outside the submarine.

Most of them were obliterated by wind driftage, although here and there they stood out plainly.

He kept his footing on logs that bobbed and rolled, selecting with a precision which seemed uncanny the driftage which would support him.

There, on the dun, wet sands, beyond the foamy tongues of the surf, would lie the worn and curious driftage of alien shores, and trove that hur ricanes had cast up from unsounded deeps.

To be sure, he had traveled previously only as far as Synnax's only satellite in order to get the data on the mechanics of meteor driftage which he needed for his dissertation, but space-travel was all one whether one travelled half a million miles, or as many light years.

There, on the dun, wet sands, beyond the foamy tongues of the surf, would lie the worn and curious driftage of alien shores, and trove that hur- ricanes had cast up from unsounded deeps.