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drifter 
n. a snowstorm in which the snow is whipped into drifts by the wind.
See also: drift storm
- 1922 Then came snow, the winter's first big "drifter," and for three days there was no land or sea or sky.
- 1942 There we met our first blast, not a drifter but a steady and almost unbearable wind, drumming in our ears like the roar of the sea until we could hear nothing else.
- 1922 Then came snow, the winter's first big "drifter," and for three days there was no land or sea or sky.