Definition of driving

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Driving (a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft..

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Shovelboard :: Shovelboard (n.) A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny..
Extrusion :: Extrusion (n.) The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.
Costeaning :: Costeaning (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits..
Scud :: Scud (n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
Ribbon :: Ribbon (n.) Driving reins.
Palification :: Palification (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
Round-up :: Round-up (n.) The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Fleabane :: Fleabane (n.) One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria..
Pickaxe :: Pickaxe (n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes..
Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run..
Repulse :: Repulse (n.) The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back..
Telodynamic :: Telodynamic (a.) Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
Distillation :: Distillation (n.) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam..
Gust :: Gust (n.) A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw..
Hackney :: Hackney (n.) A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
Blast :: Blast (n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast..
Oxgoad :: Oxgoad (n.) A goad for driving oxen.
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