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by Anonymous on February 19th, 2008
Nahhh,...you're all over-thinking it,...it's a log-rollers phrase-my drift is the log I lost,...a "drift" is all my logs,...in the early days of west coast North American logging, people rode a "herd" of logs - a "drift" to market,...specialized log-rollers actually tended them down river,...a loose log was a drifter and a downstream man would be encouraged to "catch my drift",...BTW also the origin of the slang word "drifter",....
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According the the Michigan loggers lingo dictionary,this is correct.
by Yarnlady is happy every day on March 20th, 2008