1. one that drives, as the operator of a motor vehicle.
2. A tool, such as a screwdriver or hammer, that is used for imparting forceful pressure on another object.
3. A machine part that transmits motion or power to another part.
4. computer science A piece of software that enables a computer to communicate with a peripheral device.
5. sports A golf club with a wide head and a long shaft, used for making long shots from the tee.
6. nautical A jib-headed spanker.

1. one who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
2. something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
3. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
4. A person who drives some other vehicle.
5. a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
6. A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
7. a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.

1. one who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
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.
3. an overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
4. 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
5. the driving wheel of a locomotive.
6. an attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
7. A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
8. the after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
9. an implement used for driving
10. A mallet.
11. A tamping iron.
12. A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
13. A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes.

1. one who or that which drives.
2. one who drives draft-animals attached to a vehicle.
3. formerly, in the southern united states, specifically, the overseer of a gang of slaves.
4. by extension, a locomotive-engineer.
5. A subordinate official formerly employed in driving for rent in ireland. see drive, v. i., 8.
6. one who drives game to a hunter; in deer-hunting, one who puts the hounds on the track of the game.
7. one who sets something before him as an aim or object; an aimer.
8. one who drives logs down a stream.
9. an energetic, pushing person.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. the foremost spur in the bulgeways.
13. in mach.: A driving-wheel.
14. the tread-wheel of a harvester.
15. A tamping-iron, used to tamp the powder in a blast-hole.
16. A curved piece of metal fixed to the center-chuck of a lathe.
17. the cross-bar on the spindle of a grinding-mill.
18. same as drift, n., 11.
19. A substance interposed between the driving instrument and the thing driven. A cooper drives hoops by striking upon the driver.
20. 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.
21. A bird, the dowitcher.
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1. (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
2. a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
3. the operator of a motor vehicle
4. someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
5. a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee