Thrust
Thrust , noun and verb
Thrist. [Obsolete] — Spenser
Thrust , transitive verb
[Old English {not transcribed}rusten, {not transcribed}risten, {not transcribed}resten, Icelandic {not transcribed}r{not transcribed}st{not transcribed} to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to English threat.]
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.
2.
To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
Collocations (8)
To thrust away or To thrust 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 To thrust one's self 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.
To thrust together , to compress.
Thrust , intransitive verb
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.
3.
To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.
As doth an eager hound
Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.
Collocations (1)
To thrust to , to rush upon. [Obsolete]
Thrust , noun
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.
2.
An attack; an assault.
One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
3.
(Mechanics) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Architecture), 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.
Collocations (2)
Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers) , a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.
Thrust plane (Geology) , the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.