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Driver

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The driving wheel of a locomotive.

II. Driver ·noun A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

III. Driver ·noun An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

IV. Driver ·noun An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

V. Driver ·noun The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.

VI. Driver ·noun One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

VII. Driver ·noun The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, ·etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.

VIII. Driver ·noun 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:.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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