"raindrift" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From rain + drift.",
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      "form": "raindrifts",
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          "ref": "1843, John Mason Neale, Agnes de Tracy, page 55",
          "text": "The fierce wind drove a raindrift in at the open door, as two men, drenched from head to foot, but vested as Benedictine monks, entered.",
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          "ref": "1864, James Augustus St. John, Weighed in the balance, page 40",
          "text": "Tiny pools diversified the surface of the well-made road, which, as they advanced farther and farther into the open country, was swept by raindrifts, driven furiously before the rising wind, that whistled through the naked trees[…]",
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          "ref": "1905, The Irish Monthly, volume 33, page 379",
          "text": "Then there was stamping on the gravel and murmurs of voices; then silence preceding the snap of a whip, and, finally, a rolling of wheels down the avenue, lost in the roaring of the wind and the rattle of the dismal raindrifts[…]",
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        "A sheet of rain blown by the wind."
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  "word": "raindrift"
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  "etymology_text": "From rain + drift.",
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