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
- 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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