| raindrift Dec 4th 2012, 22:37
Latest revision as of 22:37, 4 December 2012 [edit] English [edit] Etymology rain + drift raindrift (plural raindrifts) - A sheet of rain blown by the wind.
- 1843, John Mason Neale, Agnes de Tracy (page 55)
- The fierce wind drove a raindrift in at the open door, as two men, drenched from head to foot, but vested as Benedictine monks, entered.
- 1864, James Augustus St. John, Weighed in the balance (page 40)
- Tiny pools diversified the surface of the well-made road, which, as they advanced farther and farther into the open country, was swept by raindrifts, driven furiously before the rising wind, that whistled through the naked trees […]
- 1905, The Irish Monthly (volume 33, page 379)
- Then there was stamping on the gravel and murmurs of voices; then silence preceding the snap of a whip, and, finally, a rolling of wheels down the avenue, lost in the roaring of the wind and the rattle of the dismal raindrifts […]
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