DRIFTWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does driftwood mean? 

• DRIFTWOOD (noun)
  The noun DRIFTWOOD has 1 sense:

1. wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore

  Familiarity information: DRIFTWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIFTWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("driftwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

 Context examples 

Then there will be huts to build and driftwood to gather.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A few sticks of driftwood furnished them with a fire that thawed down through the ice and left them to eat supper in the dark.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She compromised, however, by taking upon herself the lighter labours of cooking and gathering driftwood and moss for our winter’s supply.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was driftwood, though not much, on the beach, and the sight of a coffee tin I had taken from the Ghost’s larder had given me the idea of a fire.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)