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

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Quill
·noun A hollow spindle. II. Quill ·noun The fold or plain of a ruff. III. Quill ·noun The tube of ...

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

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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...

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Crow-quill
·noun A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill. ...

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quill-tubes
Those in use with port-fires for firing guns before the introduction of detonating and friction-tube...

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

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

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devil driver
A parson. See snub devil. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
river driver
A term used by lumbermen in Maine, for a man whose business it is to conduct logs down rilnuing stre...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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. ...

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

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