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drifter
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a snowstorm in which the snow is whipped into drifts by the wind.
See: drift storm
Quotations
1922
Then came snow, the winter's first big "drifter," and for three days there was no land or sea or sky.
1942
There we met our first blast, not a drifter but a steady and almost unbearable wind, drumming in our ears like the roar of the sea until we could hear nothing else.