Thrust /(?)/

Thrust

n. & v.
  1. Thrist. [Obs.]

Thrust

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting

  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.

Phrases & Compounds
To thrust away
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
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.
To thrust together
to compress.

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.
  3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
    As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.

Phrases & Compounds
To thrust to
to rush upon.

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.
  2. An attack; an assault.
    One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
  3. 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. (Mech.)
  4. The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. (Mining)

Phrases & Compounds
Thrust bearing
a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.
Thrust plane
the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.