Driving

·noun Tendency; drift.

II. Driving ·adj Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.

III. Driving ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Drive.

IV. Driving ·adj Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

V. Driving ·noun The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.

driving piles
The motion of a ship bobbing in a head sea, compared to the vertical fall of monkeys on pile heads. ...

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to be driving at
'What are you driving at?' that is, what are you about? what object have you in view? A colloquial e...

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driving a charge
Ramming home the loading of a piece of ordnance. ...

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