THRUST
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Thrust (?), n. & v. Thrist. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Thrust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.] [OE. &unr_;rusten, &unr_;risten, &unr_;resten, Icel. &unr_;r&unr_;st&unr_; to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. 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.
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Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.
Milton.
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2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
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To thrust away or To thrust from, to push away; to reject. -- To thrust in, to push or drive in. -- To thrust off, to push away. -- To thrust on, to impel; to urge. -- To thrust one's self in or To thrust one's self into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. -- To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. -- To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. “I am eight times thrust through the doublet.” Shak. -- To thrust together, to compress.
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Thrust, v. i. 1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
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2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
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And thrust between my father and the god.
Dryden.
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3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. “Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.” Chapman.
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To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.]
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As doth an eager hound
Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.
Spenser.
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Thrust, n. 1. 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.
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[Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.
Dryden.
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2. An attack; an assault.
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One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
Dr. H. More.
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3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.
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4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
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Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.
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Syn. -- Push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.
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