n. One who or that which drives.n. One who drives draft-animals attached to a vehicle.n. Formerly, in the southern United States, specifically, the overseer of a gang of slaves.n. By extension, a locomotive-engineer.n. A subordinate official formerly employed in driving for rent in Ireland. See drive, v. i., 8.n. One who drives game to a hunter; in deer-hunting, one who puts the hounds on the track of the game.n. One who sets something before him as an aim or object; an aimer.n. One who drives logs down a stream.n. An energetic, pushing person.n. In the menhaden-fishery, one who drives the fish into the net by throwing stones at them from a light rowboat, a pile of stones being carried for the purpose.n. Naut.: A large sail, like a studdingsail, formerly set abaft the mizzenmast where the spanker is now set; hence, the spanker. See cut under sail.n. The foremost spur in the bulgeways.n. In mach.: A driving-wheel.n. The tread-wheel of a harvester.n. A tamping-iron, used to tamp the powder in a blast-hole.n. A curved piece of metal fixed to the center-chuck of a lathe.n. The cross-bar on the spindle of a grinding-mill.n. Same as drift, n., 11.n. A substance interposed between the driving instrument and the thing driven. A cooper drives hoops by striking upon the driver.n. In weaving, a piece of wood or other material, upon a spindle, and placed in a box, which impels the shuttle through the opening in the warp.n. A bird, the dowitcher.n.