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Driver ant   /drˈaɪvər ænt/   Listen
noun
Driver  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
2.
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.
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
4.
(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:
(a)
The driving wheel of a locomotive.
(b)
An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
(c)
A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
5.
(Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
6.
An implement used for driving; as:
(a)
A mallet.
(b)
A tamping iron.
(c)
A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
(d)
A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes.
Driver ant (Zool.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.





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"Driver ant" Quotes from Famous Books



... myself am the deviser of a variant of the unduly notorious kite device and the scarcely less celebrated 'Six Gates of Wisdom.' I term it The Feast of a Thousand Ants. It is performed with the aid of African driver ant, a pair of surgical scissors and a pot of honey. I have observed you studying with interest the human skeleton yonder. It is that of one of my followers—a Nubian mute—who met with an untimely end quite recently. You are wondering, no doubt, how I obtained the frame in so short a time? My ...
— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer


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