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Thrust
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
(3):
(v. t.) 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.
(4):
(v. t.) To stab; to pierce; - usually with through.
(5):
(n. & v.) Thrist.
(6):
(imp. & p. p.) of Thrust
(7):
(n.) An attack; an assault.
(8):
(v. i.) To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
(9):
(v. i.) To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
(10):
(v. i.) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
(11):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Thrust'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/thrust.html. 1828.
