jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting
(noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); “he warned me with a jab with his finger”; “he made a thrusting motion with his fist”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
thrusting
present participle of thrust
thrusting (plural thrustings)
The motion by which someone or something thrusts.
The act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.
The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
Source: Wiktionary
Thrust"ing, n.
1. The act of pushing with force.
2. (Dairies) (a) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. (b) pl.
Definition: The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. [Written also thrutchthings.] [Prov. Eng.] Thrusting screw, the screw of a screw press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. [R.]
Thrust, n. & v.
Definition: Thrist. [Obs.] Spenser.
Thrust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.] Etym: [OE. , , , Icel. to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.]
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. Milton.
2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. To thrust away or from, 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 or into, 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. "I am eight times thrust through the doublet." Shak.
– 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. Dryden.
3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. "Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse." Chapman. To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.] As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. Spenser.
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. Dryden.
2. An attack; an assault. One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. Dr. H. More.
3. (Mech.)
Definition: 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.
4. (Mining)
Definition: The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.
– Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.
Syn.
– Push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 April 2025
(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
