driftwood
d rif twood
- n wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
- Trees blown from the earth lie with their roots twisted into clumps like charred driftwood.
- Like drowning men grasping the only piece of buoyant driftwood in sight, top executives from the world's beleaguered auto industry arrived in Shanghai this week for the city's 2009 .
- The sculpture of William Muir looks something like polished driftwood; but nature, with all her wisdom, cannot seem to match by accident what Muir shapes by design.