Definition of drive

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Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like..

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Abactor :: Abactor (n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
Driver :: Driver (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker..
Slaver :: Slaver (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
Outjest :: Outjest (v. t.) To surpass in jesting; to drive out, or away, by jesting..
Trot :: Trot (v. i.) To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n..
Enforce :: Enforce (v. t.) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
Repel :: Repel (v. t.) To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant..
Follower :: Follower (n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
Cuddy :: Cuddy (n.) An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer..
Shepherd :: Shepherd (v. t.) To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd..
Reservoir :: Reservoir (n.) A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like..
Coachman :: Coachman (n.) A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
Spur :: Spur (v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive..
Unharbor :: Unharbor (v. t.) To drive from harbor or shelter.
Drover :: Drover (n.) One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market..
Driven :: Driven (p. p.) of Drive. Also adj.
Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of..
Flume :: Flume (n.) A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity..
Haw :: Haw (v. i.) To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee..
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