Driftwood
Pronunciation : Drift"wood`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. Wood drifted or floated by water.
2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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