the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Driver
Webster's Dictionary
or (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:
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Driver'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/driver.html. 1828.
