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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
snow driven along the surface by wind.
Quotations
1777
Weather clear with a ground drift and freezing yard.
1883
. . . there is a great prospect of remaining here tomorrow yet, on account of the ground drift and wind.
1937
. . . recordings on the Kittigazuit reindeer reserve last winter often sank to fifty and sixty degrees below zero, accompanied by high winds that set up a dangerous blinding ground-drift.
1946
It was bitterly cold with a hard nor'west wind sweeping the ground-drift before it. . . .