Trift

Pronunciation: /tʁɪft/

“Trift” is a German word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

path on which livestock is driven, cattle track
pastureland of lesser quality, grazing, sheepwalk
log driving, timber floating

Etymology

From Middle High German trift (“driving, floating, way of living”), from Old High German *trift, from Proto-Germanic *driftiz, deverbal from *drībaną (“to drive”), whence German treiben. Doublet of Drift (from Low German), whose nautical senses were also added to Trift as semantic loans (now uncommon).

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