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driftwood

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noun

wood floating on a body of water or cast ashore by it.

such wood adapted for use in interior decoration.

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or made of driftwood: a driftwood lamp.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Origin:
1605–15; drift + wood¹

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driftwood (ˈdrɪftˌwʊd)

—n
	wood floating on or washed ashore by the sea or other body of water

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driftwood

1630s, from drift + wood (n.).

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"Why care for these dead bodies? They really have no friends but the worms or fishes. Their owners were coming to the New World, as Columbus and the Pilgrims did; they were within a mile of its shores; but, before they could reach it, they emigrated to a newer world than ever Columbus dreamed of, yet one of whose existence we believe that there is far more universal and convincing evidence—though it has not yet been discovered by science—than Columbus had of this: not merely mariners' tales and some paltry driftwood and seaweed, but a continual drift and instinct to all our shores. I saw their empty hulks that came to land; but they themselves, meanwhile, were cast upon some shore yet further west, toward which we are all tending, and which we shall reach at last, it may be through storm and darkness, as they did. No doubt, we have reason to thank God that they have not been "shipwrecked into life again.""

-Henry David Thoreau

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