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Synonyms for drifter

Grammar : Noun
Spell : drif-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɪf tər


Définition of drifter

Origin :
  • 1864, as a mining term; 1883, "boat fishing with drift-nets;" agent noun from drift (v.). Meaning "vagrant" is from 1908.
  • noun wanderer
Example sentences :
  • Bill said he was a drifter—a dangerous maniac who must have been crazed by the sun.
  • Extract from : « The Man the Martians Made » by Frank Belknap Long
  • The drifter, the unstable, the good-for-nothing—did not falter.
  • Extract from : « Five Tales » by John Galsworthy
  • As I look back on it, it strikes me I always have been more or less of a drifter.
  • Extract from : « J. Poindexter, Colored » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
  • At best he will become an indifferent citizen; at worst a drifter or a criminal.
  • Extract from : « Think » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
  • He had, like Hadji the beggar, become in twenty-four hours again a drifter.
  • Extract from : « Down the Mother Lode » by Vivia Hemphill
  • Skipper of Drifter (who has been fined thirty-five shillings for losing a pair of binoculars).
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 19, 1917 » by Various
  • The average man or woman who belongs to the former class has rather a horror of the drifter and likes to give him a wide berth.
  • Extract from : « Across the Mesa » by Jarvis Hall
  • We were steaming in line abreast, and the order was signalled for each ship to take one drifter in tow.
  • Extract from : « 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories » by Various
  • We sped by a lightship, the drifter having only one dim glim at her masthead.
  • Extract from : « The Secrets of a Kuttite » by Edward O. Mousley
  • Anchored off the point was a small steam yacht, either a converted drifter or built on drifter lines.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of the Green Ray » by William Le Queux

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