2. (Golf) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made
with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a
stroke.
6. An implement used for driving; as:
(a) A mallet.
(b) A tamping iron.
(c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
(d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for
playing the longest strokes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. --Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
--Pope.
Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. --Pope.
2. To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which
draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also,
to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by
beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive
a person to his own door.
How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
--Thackeray.
3. To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain;
to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive
a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of
circumstances, by argument, and the like. `` Enough to
drive one mad.'' --Tennyson.
He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do
the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had
done for his. --Sir P.
Sidney.
4. To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
[Now used only colloquially.] --Bacon.
The trade of life can not be driven without
partners. --Collier.
5. To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
To drive the country, force the swains away.
--Dryden.
6. (Mining) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery
or tunnel. --Tomlinson.
7. To pass away; -- said of time. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent
action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body
is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to
cause to move by applying the force before, or in
front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the
objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an
engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive
logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct
them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to
place them in a machine, which, by a current of air,
drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them
by themselves. ``My thrice-driven bed of down.''
--Shak.
Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
--Dryden.
Under cover of the night and a driving tempest.
--Prescott.
Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our
lips are dumb. --Tennyson.
2. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any
physical force or agent; to be driven.
The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.
--Byron.
The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers.
--Thackeray.
3. To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by
directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw
it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
4. To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an
effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular
interest he drove at. --South.
5. To distrain for rent. [Obs.]
{To let drive}, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to
attack. ``Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.''
--Shak.
2. A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared
for driving.
3. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a
forced or hurried dispatch of business.
The Murdstonian drive in business. --M. Arnold.
4. In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix,
formed by a punch drift.
5. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to
be floated down a river. [Colloq.]