• Bedrift

    Origin

    From -("about, around") + drift.

    Full definition of bedrift

    Verb

    1. (ambitransitive) To drift about; drift around.
      • 1909, Thomas Carlyle, Hilaire Belloc, The French revolution: a history:The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?
      • 1918, Katharine Lee Bates, The retinue, and other poems:Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, ...
      • 2011, Anonymous, William Morris, Eirkr Magnusson, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings:... That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, ...

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