Definition of drive

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Drive (v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time.

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Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun..
Scud :: Scud (v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something..
Sociable :: Sociable (n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver..
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
Stakehead :: Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen..
Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Pile :: Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc..
Monkey :: Monkey (n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging..
Breastplough :: Breastplough (n.) A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf..
Boottree :: Boottree (n.) An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven..
Band :: Band (v. t.) To bandy; to drive away.
Bagatelle :: Bagatelle (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player..
Crosscut :: Crosscut (n.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another..
Knock :: Knock (v. i.) To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another..
Squirt :: Squirt (v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water..
Back :: Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen..
Sourt :: Spurt (v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth..
Urge :: Urge (v. t.) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
Bandy :: Bandy (v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way..
Repulser :: Repulser (n.) One who repulses, or drives back..
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