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One who drives a team.

g something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. Shak. His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. Macaulay. Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar c…

To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton.

mper. (Zoöl.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens). (b) The American bittern or stake-driver. -- Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.] -- Thunder snake. (Zoöl.) (a) The chicken, or milk, snake. (b) A small reddish ground snake (Carphophis, or Celuta, amoena) native to the Eastern United States; -- called also worm sn…

To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. They are tided down the stream. Feltham.

Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.

a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb. -- Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C. -- Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for passing over the private gro…

To drive, as a coach. [Slang,Eng.]

The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle. P. Cyc.

To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it. -- Train road, a slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining. -- Train tackle (Naut.), a tackle for running guns in and out.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. J. Burroughs.

To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.

One who trucks; a trafficker. No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for souls. South.

One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.

ng of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. South.

Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.