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usually uncountable, plural driftwoods
A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current of a body of water. quotations examples
Every wave on the Atlantic was like a dead seagull dragging its driftwood artillery from horizon to horizon.
1967, Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore. quotations examples
Commonly the bear makes a stand in driftwood on a bank, or on a log that has fallen into or across a stream.
1915 April, Enos A. Mills, The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, pages 198–199
We lit a driftwood fire to help keep the mosquitoes away. It was partially successful.
1941 March 12, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 461
A few unreliable-looking boats were beached there, unpainted boats built largely of gray driftwood, or so it seemed to me.
1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter LI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, page 309