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To push, as with a staff; -- with off. The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. South.

To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger. Thou stickest a dagger in me. Shak.

ll wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.

To push; to tug; to tow. [Obs.] Drayton.

etimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.

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.

The act of pushing with force.

n larger vessels usually submerged in broadside and fitted with a movable shield which is pushed out from the vessel's side to protect the torpedo until clear, but formerly sometimes in the bow. In submarine torpedo boats they are in the bow.

ting planes of an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.

A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.

A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. [Eng.]

A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed. "His standing bed and truckle-bed." Shak.

A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels. Chapman.

The act of pushing or thrusting. [R.] Bentley.

A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness.

One who pushes a principle or measure to extremes; an extremist; a radical; an ultra.

To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope.

A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. [R.]

To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way. Milton.

lose alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier. Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea. Bancroft. Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame. Tennyson.