The drift of the current is the rate per hour at which the current runs.
The setting of the current is that point of the compass towards which the waters of the current run.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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