DCHP-1 Online
ground-drift North 
n. snow driven along the surface by wind.
- 1777 (1951) Weather clear with a ground drift and freezing yard.
- 1883 (1963) . . . there is a great prospect of remaining here tomorrow yet, on account of the ground drift and wind.
- 1937 . . . recordings on the Kittigazuit reindeer reserve last winter often sank to fifty and sixty degrees below zero, accompanied by high winds that set up a dangerous blinding ground-drift.
- 1946 It was bitterly cold with a hard nor'west wind sweeping the ground-drift before it. . . .
- 1777 (1951) Weather clear with a ground drift and freezing yard.