Definition of driver
- n. - One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that
urges or compels anything else to move onward.
- n. - The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a
charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a
locomotive.
- n. - An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at
their work.
- n. - 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:
- n. - The driving wheel of a locomotive.
- n. - An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a
carrier.
- n. - A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper
stone.
- n. - The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail
attached to a gaff; a spanker.