Category:Thrust

Thrust, n. & v.

Defn: thrist. [obs.] Spenser.

Thrust Thrust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.] Etym: [oe. ,, , icel. to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to e. Threat.]

1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; As, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton.

2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. To thrust away or From, to push away; to reject. -- to thrust in, to push or drive in. -- to thrust off, to push away. -- to thrust on, to impel; to urge. -- to thrust one's self in or into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as Into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not Welcome. -- to thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. -- to thrust through, to pierce; to stab. "i am eight times thrust Through the doublet." Shak. -- to thrust together, to compress.

Thrust Thrust, v. i.

1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer Thrusts at his antagonist.

2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. And thrust between my father and the god. Dryden.

3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. "young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse." Chapman. To thrust To, to rush upon. [obs.] As doth an eager hound thrust to an hind within some covert glade. Spenser.

Thrust Thrust, n.

1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the Direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any Instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [polites] pyrrhus with his lance pursues, and often reaches, and his Thrusts renews. Dryden.

2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. Dr. H. More.

3. (mech.)

Defn: the force or pressure of one part of a construction against Other parts; especially (arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward Pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against The wall which support them.

4. (mining)

Defn: the breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its Superincumbent weight. Thrust bearing (screw steamers), a bearing Arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw Shaft. -- thrust plane (geol.), the surface along which dislocation has Taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

Syn. -- push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, push, shove. Push and shove Usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact With the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies The impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion Before it reaches the body to be impelled.