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RAM |
Drive into |
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CORNER |
To drive into a corner. |
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POACH |
To force, drive, or plunge into anything. |
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FLUTTER |
To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. |
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INSTIL |
Drive into Portugal ... it’s nice on the way up |
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HOLE |
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. |
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PILE |
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen
with piles. |
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IMPACT |
To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into
a place. |
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DRIFT |
To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or
sand. |
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PRICK |
To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause
lameness. |
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EXPLODE |
To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from
notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. |
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CLAP |
To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt
manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon. |
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STICK |
To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to
pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger. |
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QUARTER |
To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from
going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. |
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FORCE |
To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength
or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into,
through, out, etc. |
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SCREW-DRIVER |
A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into
their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the
screw. |
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CALK |
To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of
(a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by
smearing the seams with melted pitch. |
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WORM |
A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are
driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust.
of Worm gearing, below. |
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SHOVELBOARD |
A game played on board ship in which the aim is to
shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the
deck; -- called also shuffleboard. |
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CRAM |
To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in
thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to
superfluity; as, to ... |
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PORTE-COCHERE |
A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or
through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon
the passage of the port... |
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BILLIARDS |
...either strike (carom upon)
two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with
which the table sometimes is furnished. ... |
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PHAETHON |
...light,
or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the
chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set ... |