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Definition of Driver
Driv´er | n. | 1. | One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. | | 2. | The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle. | | 3. | An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. | | 4. | (Mach.) 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: | | 5. | The driving wheel of a locomotive. | | 5. | (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. | | 6. | An implement used for driving; |
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