driver

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who or that which drives. Specifically— One who drives animals or men. One who drives horses or cattle; a drover.
2. n. One who drives draft-animals attached to a vehicle.
3. n. Formerly, in the southern United States, specifically, the overseer of a gang of slaves.
4. n. By extension, a locomotive-engineer.
5. n. A subordinate official formerly employed in driving for rent in Ireland. See drive, v. i., 8.
6. n. One who drives game to a hunter; in deer-hunting, one who puts the hounds on the track of the game.
7. n. One who sets something before him as an aim or object; an aimer.
8. n. One who drives logs down a stream.
9. n. An energetic, pushing person.
10. n. 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. n. 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. n. The foremost spur in the bulgeways.
13. n. In mach.: A driving-wheel.
14. n. The tread-wheel of a harvester.
15. n. A tamping-iron, used to tamp the powder in a blast-hole.
16. n. A curved piece of metal fixed to the center-chuck of a lathe.
17. n. The cross-bar on the spindle of a grinding-mill.
18. n. Same as drift, n., 11.
19. n. A substance interposed between the driving instrument and the thing driven. A cooper drives hoops by striking upon the driver.
20. n. 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. n. A bird, the dowitcher.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
2. n. a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
3. n. the operator of a motor vehicle
4. n. someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
5. n. a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee