Thrust

Definition of Thrust

n. & v.

v. t.

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.

[imp. & p. p. Thrust ; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.]

Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.

- Milton.

To stab; to pierce; - usually with through.

To thrust away
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
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.

To thrust together
to compress. - Shak.

v. i.

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

To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

And thrust between my father and the god.

- Dryden.

To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.

To thrust to
to rush upon.

As doth an eager hound
Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.

- Spenser.

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.

An attack; an assault.

One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.

- Dr. H. More.

(Mech.) 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.

(Mining) 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.

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