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One who or that which drives.
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One who drives draft-animals attached to a vehicle.
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Formerly, in the southern United States, specifically, the overseer of a gang of slaves.
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By extension, a locomotive-engineer.
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A subordinate official formerly employed in driving for rent in Ireland. See drive, v. i., 8.
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One who drives game to a hunter; in deer-hunting, one who puts the hounds on the track of the game.
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One who sets something before him as an aim or object; an aimer.
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One who drives logs down a stream.
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An energetic, pushing person.
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In the menhaden-fishery, one who drives the fish into the net by throwing stones at them from a light rowboat, a pile of stones being carried for the purpose.
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Naut.: A large sail, like a studdingsail, formerly set abaft the mizzenmast where the spanker is now set; hence, the spanker. See cut under sail.
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The foremost spur in the bulgeways.
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In mach.: A driving-wheel.
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The tread-wheel of a harvester.
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A tamping-iron, used to tamp the powder in a blast-hole.
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A curved piece of metal fixed to the center-chuck of a lathe.
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The cross-bar on the spindle of a grinding-mill.
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Same as drift, n., 11.
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A substance interposed between the driving instrument and the thing driven. A cooper drives hoops by striking upon the driver.
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In weaving, a piece of wood or other material, upon a spindle, and placed in a box, which impels the shuttle through the opening in the warp.
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A bird, the dowitcher.