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drift-sand

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1637, OED Evaluation: N/A

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Interviewer: Mm-hm. What ah- what do you call the soil that's not very good, that's very poor? Speaker: Well ah real drift sand's bad. There's lots of it around.
A particular type of low-quality soil.
Speaker: Terrance Harvey Gordon Spencer, Gender: Male, Age at interview: 86, Interview: 1977, Lanark County
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