Thrust v. t. (past & past part. thrust; pres. part. thrusting) 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."
2.To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
To thrust away or To thrust 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 To thrust one's self 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."
To thrust together, to compress.
Thrust v. i. (past & past part. thrust; pres. part. thrusting) 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."
3.To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. "Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse."
To thrust to, to rush upon. (Obs.) "As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade."
Thrusting 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. 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.)
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