To Drift. v.a. [from the noun.]

1. To drive; to urge along.

   Snow no larger than so many grains of sand, drifted with the wind in clouds from every plain. Ellis's Voyage.

2. Thrown together on heaps.

                               He wanders on
   From hill to dale, still more and more astray,
   Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps. Thomson.