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(1):

(n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

(2):

(n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.

(3):

(n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.

(4):

(n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

(5):

(n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

(6):

(n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

(7):

(n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.

(8):

(n.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Driver'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/driver.html. 1828.
 
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