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    Driver , n. [From Drive.]
    1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
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    2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.
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    3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
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    4. (Mach.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
      (a) The driving wheel of a locomotive. (b) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. (c) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
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    5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
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    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.
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      Driver ant (Zool.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.
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    Spanker , n.
    1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
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    2. (Naut.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail.
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    3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. [Colloq.]
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    4. Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [Colloq.]
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      Spanker boom (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is attached. See Illust. of Ship.
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