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drifting mine

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drifting mine [′drif·tiŋ ‚mīn]
(ordnance)
An underwater mine adjusted to float unanchored on or just below the surface of the water.


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Countless were the vessels and men that passed over our eastern and western horizons never to return; but whether they met their fates before the belching tubes of submarines or among the aimlessly drifting mine fields, no man lived to tell.
 
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