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1. 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.
Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; — usually with through.
To thrust away or from, 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 or into, 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. "I am eight times thrust
through the doublet." Shak. — To thrust together, to compress.
Thrust
(Thrust), v. i.
1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
And thrust between my father and the god. Dryden. 3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. "Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse."
Chapman.
To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.]
As doth an eager hound
Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. Spenser. Thrust
(Thrust), n.
1. 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. 2. An attack; an assault.
One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. Dr. H. More. 3. (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.
4. (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.
Syn. — Push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application
of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies
the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.
Thruster
(Thrust"er) n. One who thrusts or stabs.
Thrusting
(Thrust"ing), n.
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