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Webster 1913 Edition
Driver
1.
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
3.
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
(a)
The driving wheel of a locomotive.
(b)
An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
(c)
A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
5.
(Naut.)
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Totten.
Driver ant
(Zool.)
, a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (
Anomma arcens
); – so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.Webster 1828 Edition
Driver
DRIVER
,Noun.
1.
One who drives; the person or thing that urges or compels any thing else to move.2.
The person who drives beasts.3.
The person who drives a carriage; one who conducts a team.4.
A large sail occasionally set on the mizenyard or gaff, the foot being extended over the stern by a boom.