Driftwood

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  • noun. Wood floating in or washed up by a body of water.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Wood drifted or floated by water.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Wood drifted or floated by water.
  • noun. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Floating piece of wood that drifts with the current
  • noun. Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
  • Word Usage
    "He has since gone on to become a renowned silversmith, and my mother has gone on to live with the risen Christ, but I think of that creche ... truth and reality shine through that night, even in driftwood and stone."
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