river driver

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• Driver

  ·noun The driving wheel of a locomotive. II. Driver ·noun A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• driver

  1) An overseer of slaves. 2) He or that which drives; a coachman, a carman.--Worcester. The English...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• driver

  A large sail formerly used with the wind aft or quartering. It was a square sail cut like a studding...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• River

  ·noun One who rives or splits. II. River ·vi To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• River

  1) Heb. aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 Sam. 22:16), translated "brook," "...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• river

  Mr. Pickering observes that the Americans, in speaking of rivers, commonly put the name before the w...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• River

  In the sense in which we employ the word viz. for a perennial stream of considerable size, a river i...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Screw-driver

  ·noun A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Stake-driver

  ·noun The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); — so called because one of its notes res...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• devil driver

  A parson. See snub devil. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• quill driver

  A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stage driver

  A stage-coachman. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• driver-boom

  The boom to which the driver is hauled out. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pile-driver

  A machine adapted for driving piles. Also, applied to a ship given to pitch heavily in a sea-way. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• quill-driver

  Captain's clerk, purser's secretary, et hoc genus omne. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Cappadox River

  CAPPADOX RIVER[CAPPADOCIA] ...

  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

• river-oak

  See oak. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• river-boats

  Wherries, and the like, which ply in harbours and rivers for the conveyance of passengers. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• river-harbour

  That which is situated in the channel of a river, especially such as are at the embouchure with a ba...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• river-lakes

  Large pools of water occupying a portion of the valleys or hollows through which the courses of rive...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• river-risk

  A policy of insurance from the docks to the sea, at any port. ...

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• River of Egypt

  1) Heb. nahar mitsraim, denotes in Gen. 15:18 the Nile, or its eastern branch (2 Chr. 9:26). 2) In ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• River of Gad

  Probably the Arno (2 Sam. 24:5). ...

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• River of God

  (Ps. 65:9), as opposed to earthly streams, denoting that the divine resources are inexhaustible, or ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• River of Wells

  This is the name adopted by Stow as the translation of the" rivulum foncium " of the charter of Will...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• cherry, herbert river

  n. a Queensland tree, Antidesma dallachyanum, Baill., N.O. Euphorbiaceae.The fruit is equal to a la...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• swan-river daisy

  n. a pretty annual plant, Brachycome iberidifolia, Benth., N.O. Compositae,of Western Australia. Th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• River Of Egypt

  The Nile. (Genesis 15:18) [Nile]• • A desert stream on the border of Egypt, still occasionally flow...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• to row up salt river

  is a common phrase, used generally to signify political defeat. The distance to which a party is row...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• drop down a river

  Synonymous with falling (which see). ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• New River Office and Yard

  Between Pigs Quay and Dorset Wharf on the Thames, at the southern end of Dorset Street (Horwood, 179...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.