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drift noun A mass of branches, logs, or other debris carried downstream by a tide of water, often collecting before the water recedes, then caught in a stream or along a bank; also, a place in a stream where floating objects collect.

1923 (in 1952 Mathes Tall Tales 14) The narrow creek-bed was washed into a broad river-channel down which the drift scudded—countless logs, occasional bridges, haycocks, hen-coops and small out-buildings. 1939 Hall Coll They had came a water spout in time and drifted in a whole lot of ... timber, spruce and hemlock and stuff, and the bear was in under this drift, and the dogs was, was a-barking around the drift. 1994 Montgomery Coll = often forms in high water, then remains when water recedes (Shields).