Driftwood

Floating wood that can be found in rivers, ponds, or other bodies of water. Some people collect driftwood and make things out of it such as sculptures and carvings.

Drift"wood` (?), n.

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.

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