Definition of driving

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Driving (n.) The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.

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Jounce :: "Jounce (v. t. & i.) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions..
Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..
Rustler :: Rustler (n.) A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person..
Aurigation :: Aurigation (n.) The act of driving a chariot or a carriage.
Thrust :: Thrust (n.) A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing..
Surrounding :: Surround (n.) A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc..
Lime :: Lime (n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.
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..
Throw :: Throw (n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
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..
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..
Cone Pulley :: Cone pulley () A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck..
Repulsory :: Repulsory (a.) Repulsive; driving back.
Depulsion :: Depulsion (n.) A driving or thrusting away.
Scat :: Scat (interj.) Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.
Checkrein :: Checkrein (n.) A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
Drove :: Drove (n.) Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove..
Round-up :: Round-up (n.) The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
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